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Added that PM to my last IC post.
Well that looked like a fun conversation.
JD
JD
Yeah, its too bad we don't realize what a gold-mine we're sitting on.
See atleast this time I will have a reason for wanting to whack the mage first. Lowell is trying to put the moves on my elf chick.
@Konsaki/Adamu I thought it was really cool when Caittie and Lowell were talking and she was having flash backs......was that due to Lowell mind raping her or just something Konsaki eluded to on purpose or was it a total accident and neither of you even knew it looked like that??
@Konsaki/Adamu I thought it was really cool when Caittie and Lowell were talking and she was having flash backs......was that due to Lowell mind raping her or just something Konsaki eluded to on purpose or was it a total accident and neither of you even knew it looked like that??
QUOTE (Abbandon @ Feb 7 2008, 05:56 PM) 
See atleast this time I will have a reason for wanting to whack the mage first. Lowell is trying to put the moves on my elf chick.
@Konsaki/Adamu I thought it was really cool when Caittie and Lowell were talking and she was having flash backs......was that due to Lowell mind raping her or just something Konsaki eluded to on purpose or was it a total accident and neither of you even knew it looked like that??
@Konsaki/Adamu I thought it was really cool when Caittie and Lowell were talking and she was having flash backs......was that due to Lowell mind raping her or just something Konsaki eluded to on purpose or was it a total accident and neither of you even knew it looked like that??
Everything before Lowell talks is my own work. I wrote it out to have Caittie see the flashbacks of when she blew away the SUV with the drone. Desperate people do desperate things, but Caittie doesnt have the combat/vioence in her past like most of the other characters.
Bah... It seems my servers at work have blocked Dumpshock... Means I can only check it in before and after, which blows. Though, it wasnt like I really had the time to post during work hours anyways. I was only on a computer for an average of 1h per day. 
QUOTE (BlackHat @ Feb 7 2008, 06:28 PM)
Yeah, its too bad we don't realize what a gold-mine we're sitting on.
It'll make the whole scene where Sledge asks Angel if she wants her "normal" life back interesting.
QUOTE (DireRadiant @ Feb 8 2008, 09:29 AM)
It'll make the whole scene where Sledge asks Angel if she wants her "normal" life back interesting.
Aye... That it will, though the exact response will depend on the context surrounding the questioning.
@pragma - you know about the meet and its location from receiving Johnson's group message. If you want to post some way of being around or whatever feel free. If it fits into the IC, cool. If you feel it wouldn't, just OOC me and we'll figure a way to get it in.
@Everyone at the meet - Please don't post your questions/requests to the IC thread. In the long run, it will go much faster if you post your proposed IC response into the OOC thread for this scene.
That way, whenever I am playing, I can paste all current questions into my IC and answer them all, rather than people having to go one at a time, which will take forever. This way you can fire off as many questions as you want whenever you want (please do write the proposed IC so I can just past it in), and I'll just traffic-cop it on the IC thread.
@Everyone - no need to tell you all how technophobic I am. Yes, I have a scanner. But no, despite several of your best efforts to show me how "simple" it would be for me to use that to put things on the board here, I have absolutely no idea what you were talking about or how to use this device. That's just the way some people are.
That said, fairly detailed graphics may be quite useful going forward. So if any of you (A) knows how to take a hard-copy graphic and get it onto the Internet or even directly into a post, with the new board features, AND (B) is comfortable giving me either a snail mail address or a fax number, there will be a modest karma award in it for you. Any responders PM please.
@Everyone at the meet - Please don't post your questions/requests to the IC thread. In the long run, it will go much faster if you post your proposed IC response into the OOC thread for this scene.
That way, whenever I am playing, I can paste all current questions into my IC and answer them all, rather than people having to go one at a time, which will take forever. This way you can fire off as many questions as you want whenever you want (please do write the proposed IC so I can just past it in), and I'll just traffic-cop it on the IC thread.
@Everyone - no need to tell you all how technophobic I am. Yes, I have a scanner. But no, despite several of your best efforts to show me how "simple" it would be for me to use that to put things on the board here, I have absolutely no idea what you were talking about or how to use this device. That's just the way some people are.
That said, fairly detailed graphics may be quite useful going forward. So if any of you (A) knows how to take a hard-copy graphic and get it onto the Internet or even directly into a post, with the new board features, AND (B) is comfortable giving me either a snail mail address or a fax number, there will be a modest karma award in it for you. Any responders PM please.
Can anyone please confirm for my computer-ignorant self the following:
I've got my vacation time, I've got my badge, I've got my hotel - now - the actual event registration hasn't actually started yet? I don't really need to do anything else until such point as they actually start listing the events? And will that happen all at once, or will they be trickling in, so that I have to check the darned site all the time?
I've got my vacation time, I've got my badge, I've got my hotel - now - the actual event registration hasn't actually started yet? I don't really need to do anything else until such point as they actually start listing the events? And will that happen all at once, or will they be trickling in, so that I have to check the darned site all the time?
grrr Adamu you are like a drunk you try to take to rehab. Unless they actually want to help themselves it just a waste of time lol. If you have a scanner just sitting there collecting dust PLAY WITH IT. You dont have to know what ever button does or every setting. You just have to get an image from one place to another.
Abbandon my friend - I know you are trying to encourage me. But you have to understand that some people not only do not mesh well with machines and so forth, but some of us completely lack any sort of computer background and training.
Kids today grow up with this stuff. My high school of 1,500 students had ONE computer, and it used punch cards.
I was living in a part of the world where personal computers had not proliferated during the time everyone in the US was getting them. I just sort of missed the boat - though I'll admit that part of it was simple lack of interest.
Plus, all my machinery here is in Japanese, which means it takes me twice as long to read the instructions.
Think of it this way - suppose I handed you my own badass toy/tool, an electronic Japanese-English dictionary with all sorts of cool options. And then I sat you down at my desk in Tokyo and said, Hey dude, please convert this Japanese equity report on pharmaceutical issues into English. And then when you said you didn't read Japanese, I said - well dude, you've got this slick electronic dictionary just gathering dust...It's like taking a guy who's never seen a car and saying, hey guy, it's really simple. Just start it up and use this wheel to steer.
Kids today grow up with this stuff. My high school of 1,500 students had ONE computer, and it used punch cards.
I was living in a part of the world where personal computers had not proliferated during the time everyone in the US was getting them. I just sort of missed the boat - though I'll admit that part of it was simple lack of interest.
Plus, all my machinery here is in Japanese, which means it takes me twice as long to read the instructions.
Think of it this way - suppose I handed you my own badass toy/tool, an electronic Japanese-English dictionary with all sorts of cool options. And then I sat you down at my desk in Tokyo and said, Hey dude, please convert this Japanese equity report on pharmaceutical issues into English. And then when you said you didn't read Japanese, I said - well dude, you've got this slick electronic dictionary just gathering dust...It's like taking a guy who's never seen a car and saying, hey guy, it's really simple. Just start it up and use this wheel to steer.
Cerberus - FBI questions
Cerberus unfolds his arms and steps forward, "I have some questions.. Can you tell us who these corpses are affiliated with? Are they FBI, government employee's, a particular corporation? Also who do you think killed them? We need to know who we might be running up against in this mission, who might blame us for killing them if we are caught, who might try to stop us from finding out this information you need. A collapsed, blown up building can be pretty devestating to the things inside or underneath of it, what if the corpses are to destroyed to recover intact? Do you want us to try and destroy any remnants that we are unable to excavate? What about this security corporation that will be taking over the building, when was the last time you saw their time table and do you know the project manager or guy in charge's name? Can you shadow him and give us live updates or give us his name so we can? We dont need to get caught with our hand in the cookie jar..One final question..when you guys picked me up earlier you eluded to someone else looking for me. Care to shed any light on that and let me know, after all I'd like this job to go smooth and easy."
Cerberus couldnt think of any other questions so he stepped back and folded his arms again. He thought about what kind of favors he would want from these guys and there were only a few things he could really go for, improving some of his cyber and getting his old bike back or atleast a replacement/ small upgrade. Cerberus typed a small text message up on his commlink and beamed it over to Higgins before he responded to all of Cerberus's questions.
Cerberus listened to the responses Higgins gave not only for details he had asked for but also for any hint that these guys might be hiding something. There was something off about these two like they were always in on some little joke.
(ooc)-Content of Cerberus's text message....
"'Sup Bro? Theres only a couple of things I would really like to see underneath my christmas tree. I have standard aluminum bone lacing and wired reflexes 2. If you could get me some more essense friendly aluminum bone lacing or even some titanium essense friendly implants, or maybe more essense friendly wires 2 or maybe some wiz synaptic boosters 2+ that are essense friendly that would be awesome. It would also be greatly appreciated if you got my bike out of impound or got me a stock Harley-Scorpion that is modded for trolls. I mainly just want one of those cyber upgrades, the bike would make me love you long time though, and hooking me up with all that shit or some delta grade shit would make me indebted to the two of you beyond this mission..."
Cerberus unfolds his arms and steps forward, "I have some questions.. Can you tell us who these corpses are affiliated with? Are they FBI, government employee's, a particular corporation? Also who do you think killed them? We need to know who we might be running up against in this mission, who might blame us for killing them if we are caught, who might try to stop us from finding out this information you need. A collapsed, blown up building can be pretty devestating to the things inside or underneath of it, what if the corpses are to destroyed to recover intact? Do you want us to try and destroy any remnants that we are unable to excavate? What about this security corporation that will be taking over the building, when was the last time you saw their time table and do you know the project manager or guy in charge's name? Can you shadow him and give us live updates or give us his name so we can? We dont need to get caught with our hand in the cookie jar..One final question..when you guys picked me up earlier you eluded to someone else looking for me. Care to shed any light on that and let me know, after all I'd like this job to go smooth and easy."
Cerberus couldnt think of any other questions so he stepped back and folded his arms again. He thought about what kind of favors he would want from these guys and there were only a few things he could really go for, improving some of his cyber and getting his old bike back or atleast a replacement/ small upgrade. Cerberus typed a small text message up on his commlink and beamed it over to Higgins before he responded to all of Cerberus's questions.
Cerberus listened to the responses Higgins gave not only for details he had asked for but also for any hint that these guys might be hiding something. There was something off about these two like they were always in on some little joke.
(ooc)-Content of Cerberus's text message....
"'Sup Bro? Theres only a couple of things I would really like to see underneath my christmas tree. I have standard aluminum bone lacing and wired reflexes 2. If you could get me some more essense friendly aluminum bone lacing or even some titanium essense friendly implants, or maybe more essense friendly wires 2 or maybe some wiz synaptic boosters 2+ that are essense friendly that would be awesome. It would also be greatly appreciated if you got my bike out of impound or got me a stock Harley-Scorpion that is modded for trolls. I mainly just want one of those cyber upgrades, the bike would make me love you long time though, and hooking me up with all that shit or some delta grade shit would make me indebted to the two of you beyond this mission..."
@Abbandon - will get to those things later today. Keep in mind that if you do not phrase them in Cerberus' voice yourself for me to paste in, then I will have to do my best to talk like Cerberus when I write the post. Your call.
Hope thats better for you. Just to specify. If these guys actually upgrade me to titanium or synaptic boosters, they have to at the very minimum be of the same essense cost as the shit i have now cuz im not willing to dip into my last 1 point of essense lol. I will go see what those minimums would be for you Santa....
Initiative to see when he asks:
5(7) + 4 = 11 dice
6, 4, 6, 2, 5, 5, 6, 1, 1, 4, 4 = 5 hits
Final Init = 16
Guage Speech for honesty(in Whatever Higgins says/does):
Charisma 3 + Intuition 4 = 7 dice
3, 1, 2, 5, 1, 5, 3 = 2 hits
Initiative to see when he asks:
5(7) + 4 = 11 dice
6, 4, 6, 2, 5, 5, 6, 1, 1, 4, 4 = 5 hits
Final Init = 16
Guage Speech for honesty(in Whatever Higgins says/does):
Charisma 3 + Intuition 4 = 7 dice
3, 1, 2, 5, 1, 5, 3 = 2 hits
Do you want us to IC anything we do before the pitch? Johnson will have grabbed a soda from the fridge before heading downstairs, at least.
Overall, he is going to "pull a Lowell" and keep his mouth shut. He'd probably like that to come off like he's not worried about the mission, or somehow knows everything he needs to know. In reality, he doesn't really know what to ask, and wants to let the rest of the team ask the questions. They probably know what needs to be asked based on their specialties, than he would.
He will make a Judge Intentions roll, to see what his gut tells him about these two, and their pitch - and how they answer the rest of the team's questions.
Charisma 6 + Intuition 4 = 10 dice
Higgens: #D=10 : 6324313455 n1=1 n6=1 nHit=3
Lowell: #D=10 : 3612561564 n1=2 n6=3 nHit=5
And I'd also be interested to know if Johnson remembers anything about the Hirotomo Building bombing (if it was a terrorist act, there might have been some news about it, like which terrorist group took credit for it) or First Hill (like, is that near here? downtown? etc). It sounds upscale if the security coming on Monday is so frightening.
Memory Test: Logic 3 + Will 4 = 7 dice
#D=6 : 3434463 n1=0 n6=1 nHit=1
Overall, he is going to "pull a Lowell" and keep his mouth shut. He'd probably like that to come off like he's not worried about the mission, or somehow knows everything he needs to know. In reality, he doesn't really know what to ask, and wants to let the rest of the team ask the questions. They probably know what needs to be asked based on their specialties, than he would.
He will make a Judge Intentions roll, to see what his gut tells him about these two, and their pitch - and how they answer the rest of the team's questions.
Charisma 6 + Intuition 4 = 10 dice
Higgens: #D=10 : 6324313455 n1=1 n6=1 nHit=3
Lowell: #D=10 : 3612561564 n1=2 n6=3 nHit=5
And I'd also be interested to know if Johnson remembers anything about the Hirotomo Building bombing (if it was a terrorist act, there might have been some news about it, like which terrorist group took credit for it) or First Hill (like, is that near here? downtown? etc). It sounds upscale if the security coming on Monday is so frightening.
Memory Test: Logic 3 + Will 4 = 7 dice
#D=6 : 3434463 n1=0 n6=1 nHit=1
@Abbandon - thanks for the IC stuff - you can play Cerberus infinitely better than I can, obviously. I will paste all that into the next IC.
Thanks for sending me the essence info. However, I fear it won't be relevant - these guys don't know your current essence, nor are they cybertech specialists. They will assume you know what you want and will base their answer on what they can and will give you. Computing the essence when you make your choices is your responsibility.
I have no idea what that initiative roll is for.
@Abbandon and BH - I'll cut straight to the chase - neither of you got any net hits on your Judge Intentions tests. So your characters will have to make your own assesments based on their words and my IC narrative.
@BH - First Hill is a double-A neighborhood just east of the downtown core. You remember some minor story about a building blowing up. There was some sort of in-house scandal with the construction company, but that's all you recall.
No need for any IC of before the briefing unless there is something you MUST have me edit in. Tried to keep it straightforward. It's of course fine to assume that you brought down a beverage.
Thanks for sending me the essence info. However, I fear it won't be relevant - these guys don't know your current essence, nor are they cybertech specialists. They will assume you know what you want and will base their answer on what they can and will give you. Computing the essence when you make your choices is your responsibility.
I have no idea what that initiative roll is for.
@Abbandon and BH - I'll cut straight to the chase - neither of you got any net hits on your Judge Intentions tests. So your characters will have to make your own assesments based on their words and my IC narrative.
@BH - First Hill is a double-A neighborhood just east of the downtown core. You remember some minor story about a building blowing up. There was some sort of in-house scandal with the construction company, but that's all you recall.
No need for any IC of before the briefing unless there is something you MUST have me edit in. Tried to keep it straightforward. It's of course fine to assume that you brought down a beverage.
JD has offered to help with the maps, so no need for any more assistance there. Thanks in advance to any other angels of computer savvy mercy that were planning on lending a hand.
Rocky will grab a beer and take it down with him.
At the moment he doesn't have any questions regarding the job. It sounds like he will just be the muscle for hauling the bodies out.
IC....
As Higgins goes over the details Rocky sits back and enjoys his first beer in weeks. Listening it sounds like this could be an easy job, with just some heavy lifting for him and Cerberus. He kept his mouth shut as he could not really think of anything useful to add to the conversation.
<<Text@Higgins:: Any chance you could get me cleared on what ever charges are hanging over me? If not then I'll need to think on it for a while. How do we collect on these "Favors"? >>
BTW - This week is going to be very busy for me at home & work, and then next weekend I'll be out of town from Friday morning till Monday night late at my local gaming convention. Should be getting back in to the swing of things on Tuesday the 19th. During the week this week should be ok, but if I'm slow thats why.
JD
At the moment he doesn't have any questions regarding the job. It sounds like he will just be the muscle for hauling the bodies out.
IC....
As Higgins goes over the details Rocky sits back and enjoys his first beer in weeks. Listening it sounds like this could be an easy job, with just some heavy lifting for him and Cerberus. He kept his mouth shut as he could not really think of anything useful to add to the conversation.
<<Text@Higgins:: Any chance you could get me cleared on what ever charges are hanging over me? If not then I'll need to think on it for a while. How do we collect on these "Favors"? >>
BTW - This week is going to be very busy for me at home & work, and then next weekend I'll be out of town from Friday morning till Monday night late at my local gaming convention. Should be getting back in to the swing of things on Tuesday the 19th. During the week this week should be ok, but if I'm slow thats why.
JD
Oh thanks JD. I forgot to offer up my scanner, if needed. 
Let me know if it comes up again.
Let me know if it comes up again.
lol. I was just rolling initiative to see which of our crew asks questions first =P
I've been unable to come up with anything clever for listening in on the conversation and Fort's paranoia runs to deep to risk a wireless link or a watcher spirit on site.
As a result, Fort probably just asked someone (probably Johnson or Sledge) to record the meeting and send it to him once they were sure Lowell wasn't looking. No need to add a whole IC for that, but I'd appreciate it if someone could edit it in.
As a result, Fort probably just asked someone (probably Johnson or Sledge) to record the meeting and send it to him once they were sure Lowell wasn't looking. No need to add a whole IC for that, but I'd appreciate it if someone could edit it in.
Dude if Adamu doesnt mind, Cerberus could be recording audio/visual of the whole meet. I wish I would have done it anyways.
Hey guys!!!!! I think this is really important and everyone should know it, and help spread the word. I think it will add a crap load of flavor to the forum games.
Check this out
Hey all. Everytime I have to roll something I have to freaking either look up the formula or remember it and I was thinking "I need to make something on the wiki like a scratch pad so I can write down all the rolls I would need so I can just copy/paste them" But then I thought about the mechanics page and it had alot of the forumal's and stuff down already just not in forum format. Well I overhauled my mechanics page and broke it up into sections and then in each section there are properly formatted rolls for everything. Check it out:
Mechanics
It looks a little ugly with all those horozontal lines but thats my rough draft hehe. Maybe I can put all those into a table. Hopefully they will stay formatted, because being able to copy/paste is the whole point. Does anyone want me to redo their mechanics page like it is now or the table version if it works? I tried to just put rolls for stuff you can do, or things you probably might want to do like Stealth Skills, and defense against everything imaginable.
@Adamu: I noticed I had not added the specifics of cerberus's eyes and ears to his wiki and in doing so i discovered an error/glitch/problem. His eyes have a capicity of 12, he has 13 points worth of stuff crammed into them. The quickest and easiest thing for me to do is drop "vision enhance 3" down to "vision enhance 2" which will affect my perception rolls from now on. Guess I will kiss the 1500Y that extra point cost goodbye.
I'll let you know if my ears have been cheating to, they are next.
Hey guys!!!!! I think this is really important and everyone should know it, and help spread the word. I think it will add a crap load of flavor to the forum games.
Check this out
Hey all. Everytime I have to roll something I have to freaking either look up the formula or remember it and I was thinking "I need to make something on the wiki like a scratch pad so I can write down all the rolls I would need so I can just copy/paste them" But then I thought about the mechanics page and it had alot of the forumal's and stuff down already just not in forum format. Well I overhauled my mechanics page and broke it up into sections and then in each section there are properly formatted rolls for everything. Check it out:
Mechanics
It looks a little ugly with all those horozontal lines but thats my rough draft hehe. Maybe I can put all those into a table. Hopefully they will stay formatted, because being able to copy/paste is the whole point. Does anyone want me to redo their mechanics page like it is now or the table version if it works? I tried to just put rolls for stuff you can do, or things you probably might want to do like Stealth Skills, and defense against everything imaginable.
@Adamu: I noticed I had not added the specifics of cerberus's eyes and ears to his wiki and in doing so i discovered an error/glitch/problem. His eyes have a capicity of 12, he has 13 points worth of stuff crammed into them. The quickest and easiest thing for me to do is drop "vision enhance 3" down to "vision enhance 2" which will affect my perception rolls from now on. Guess I will kiss the 1500Y that extra point cost goodbye.
I'll let you know if my ears have been cheating to, they are next.
Adamu,
Do me a favor when you fax stuff and drop me a PM or post here so I know to check my email. I used my secondary email account just in case this fax site passes my email around.
Thanks
JD
Do me a favor when you fax stuff and drop me a PM or post here so I know to check my email. I used my secondary email account just in case this fax site passes my email around.
Thanks
JD
@JD - thanks - I will be sure to do that.
@Abbandon - that is some cool stuff.
A while back I tried typing some Japanese into the thread, but most people only got gibberish out on their side. It all depends on the encoding settings on individual PCs, I believe.
In any case, however well the machine does with Mary had a little lamb, the sad fact (or happy fact for my livelihood) is that Japanese-English computer translations still degrade rapidly into utter nonsense after the first few lines or anything with any sort of complexity. But I may give your toy a try if we need a European language.
Don't worry about the over capacity on your eyes - all that was approved long ago by me - if I made a mistake, then you had a cool surgeon, or got a nifty high-grade model eyes or something.
@pragma/Abbandon - I edited in that Cerberus was recording everything. Short of totally hacking his system, there's really no way to know if someone with cybereyes/ears has them set to record or not...
@Abbandon - that is some cool stuff.
A while back I tried typing some Japanese into the thread, but most people only got gibberish out on their side. It all depends on the encoding settings on individual PCs, I believe.
In any case, however well the machine does with Mary had a little lamb, the sad fact (or happy fact for my livelihood) is that Japanese-English computer translations still degrade rapidly into utter nonsense after the first few lines or anything with any sort of complexity. But I may give your toy a try if we need a European language.
Don't worry about the over capacity on your eyes - all that was approved long ago by me - if I made a mistake, then you had a cool surgeon, or got a nifty high-grade model eyes or something.
@pragma/Abbandon - I edited in that Cerberus was recording everything. Short of totally hacking his system, there's really no way to know if someone with cybereyes/ears has them set to record or not...
Okay - don't want anyone left out of this scene just cuz they haven't been online or something.
So I am not planning on having the agents conclude the meet until about 36 hours from now (and of course only then if there is no ongoing dialogue in motion).
So I am not planning on having the agents conclude the meet until about 36 hours from now (and of course only then if there is no ongoing dialogue in motion).
Quick ? on the last IC.
Whats DSS and would Rocky know what DSS is or will he need to ask IC?
Thanks
JD
Whats DSS and would Rocky know what DSS is or will he need to ask IC?
Thanks
JD
No big mystery - it stands for Diplomatic Security Services, it's the law enforcement/personal protection arm of the State Department. I have no idea how it would be in RL, but decided your case was primarily under their jurisdiction, since it is a diplomatic matter. You can assume you heard of it from watching news reports about yourself.
Thought of a couple of questions about the favor, but might as well wait until delivery to ask them. Besides, until I debrief with Fortunato, I'm not sure how many favors I'll have to cash in on.
Sledge isn't going to say anything, except possibly at the end of the meet to let everyone know it's time to go to work.
Sledge is however likely to have some visible reactions during the session.
And no point in any favors till after the run at the very least.
Sledge is however likely to have some visible reactions during the session.
And no point in any favors till after the run at the very least.
Caittie sat in a chair, listening to the off and on conversations, silent and unassuming or at least trying to be. She figured the breaks in the vocal communication were either people trying to sort their mind or, more likely, chatter on the digital realm. Hell, she would be foolish to bet against the last one as she could 'see' the streams of data going from one device to another, though seeing it and understanding it were two entirely different things.
This concentration on the talks and the few streams of data were probably the only things keeping her from going insane... or at least thats what the technomancer thought to herself. Taking a deep breath, she shook her head, red braid swinging with the effort. 'Come on, girl! Keep it together and work!', she yelled at herself in her own head to psych up.
The elven lass flicked her gaze to the dull-looking mage, lazily smoking in slow drags by a corner of the room, but lingered not but a second as she then focused in on the talkative of the pair. "Agent Higgins...", she started with a little apprehension, but quickly broke through to be more professional sounding, "is there a statute of limitations on these favors?" With narry a pause, she continued, "I'd hate to perform this work, though helpful it might be to the FBI, and find out that when I try and call in the favor that I'm just past it's experation." The green eyed teenager wore a slight smile as her tone held more of a hint of humor near the end of the last line.
<Insert response here if you wish>
After a pause, she asked off another question to the agent, "Also, what would be the, um..." She thoughts stuttered for a second, trying to think of the proper word, but quickly picked the sentance back up, "average expected return from these favors? I mean, you could have us asking anything, from expensive things to, say... new lives to live. What would be the the most you could do for us without getting yourself in trouble?"
This concentration on the talks and the few streams of data were probably the only things keeping her from going insane... or at least thats what the technomancer thought to herself. Taking a deep breath, she shook her head, red braid swinging with the effort. 'Come on, girl! Keep it together and work!', she yelled at herself in her own head to psych up.
The elven lass flicked her gaze to the dull-looking mage, lazily smoking in slow drags by a corner of the room, but lingered not but a second as she then focused in on the talkative of the pair. "Agent Higgins...", she started with a little apprehension, but quickly broke through to be more professional sounding, "is there a statute of limitations on these favors?" With narry a pause, she continued, "I'd hate to perform this work, though helpful it might be to the FBI, and find out that when I try and call in the favor that I'm just past it's experation." The green eyed teenager wore a slight smile as her tone held more of a hint of humor near the end of the last line.
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After a pause, she asked off another question to the agent, "Also, what would be the, um..." She thoughts stuttered for a second, trying to think of the proper word, but quickly picked the sentance back up, "average expected return from these favors? I mean, you could have us asking anything, from expensive things to, say... new lives to live. What would be the the most you could do for us without getting yourself in trouble?"
After Angel....
Cerberus regains his focus midway into Angel's questions and gets his mind back on the job. Why the hell wasnt anyone asking questions? Did they already know everything they needed to know? He sure as hell didnt have experience digging up dead bodies. All the ones he had seen were usually fresh kills or in the process of dieing. He grimaced at the thought of having to dig around and bust through concrete and most likely get blisters on his hands but he looked forward to putting his muscles to use. Then a thought occured to him... "What if these bodies are not there? Can your information be wrong? What do these individuals even look like? Can you atleast give us their biometric data? Race, hair color, ethnicity, weight..."
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When the group eventually gets up and leaves...
As the others got up to leave Cerberus just stood their staring and Higgins and Lowell. Johnson was one of the first to walk buy and saw him standing there and asked "Are you coming?". Cerberus continued his stare down with the agents which wasnt hard thanx to his cybereyes but replied to Johnson, "Yeah I will be up in a second.". Once everyone had vacated the basement or atleast was out of earshot Cerberus dropped his arms to his sides ready to follow the others but said what he had to say to the agents first, "I dont ever wanna hear another slight against my ethics or anyone else's I'm rolling with, crystal? Its not conducive to this relationship." Cerberus stood there a second longer challenging either agent to make another comment and then bounded off up the stairs and towards the others ducking his head down where the room connected with the stairs.
Cerberus regains his focus midway into Angel's questions and gets his mind back on the job. Why the hell wasnt anyone asking questions? Did they already know everything they needed to know? He sure as hell didnt have experience digging up dead bodies. All the ones he had seen were usually fresh kills or in the process of dieing. He grimaced at the thought of having to dig around and bust through concrete and most likely get blisters on his hands but he looked forward to putting his muscles to use. Then a thought occured to him... "What if these bodies are not there? Can your information be wrong? What do these individuals even look like? Can you atleast give us their biometric data? Race, hair color, ethnicity, weight..."
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When the group eventually gets up and leaves...
As the others got up to leave Cerberus just stood their staring and Higgins and Lowell. Johnson was one of the first to walk buy and saw him standing there and asked "Are you coming?". Cerberus continued his stare down with the agents which wasnt hard thanx to his cybereyes but replied to Johnson, "Yeah I will be up in a second.". Once everyone had vacated the basement or atleast was out of earshot Cerberus dropped his arms to his sides ready to follow the others but said what he had to say to the agents first, "I dont ever wanna hear another slight against my ethics or anyone else's I'm rolling with, crystal? Its not conducive to this relationship." Cerberus stood there a second longer challenging either agent to make another comment and then bounded off up the stairs and towards the others ducking his head down where the room connected with the stairs.
Nothing says "Don't question my ethics" like an intimidation roll.
shut up blackhat!! you trying to get me killed before we even go on the mission??
QUOTE (Abbandon @ Feb 11 2008, 05:06 PM)
shut up blackhat!! you trying to get me killed before we even go on the mission??
Yes, please!
You telling me Cerberus isn't an intimidating fellow? Its really only a problem if you GLITCH....
I say go for it.
CARPE DIUM
I say go for it.
CARPE DIUM
I thought Lowell was questioning his own ethics with that snort.... or Higgens.
FWIW I thought it was because we just got done with a wetwork job. I would question our ethics too.
I don't know that wetwork is our only concern. I mean, we did just agree to commit a felony in exchange for illegal cyberware, a get out of jail free card for killing a foreign national and probably worse things once Fort finds out about the deal.
Honestly, our ethics are so far gone that just associating with us is questionable ethics on the agents part. Which, I suppose, is a cleverly delivered theme of the game.
That said, the Cerberus' speech is well in keeping with his character and a charming bit of role-playing. Go for it.
Honestly, our ethics are so far gone that just associating with us is questionable ethics on the agents part. Which, I suppose, is a cleverly delivered theme of the game.
That said, the Cerberus' speech is well in keeping with his character and a charming bit of role-playing. Go for it.
Abbandon - definitely have not forgotten your parting comments - just don't want to rush to end of meet without being sure everyone is done.
So with questions and so forth still fairly active, I am leaving the meeting in progress.
I plan on ending the meeting when either 24 RL hours passes without questions/comments, or either BH or DR posts an IC comment (here in the OOC, please) that it is time to pack up and go. At that point I'll post that and IC the rest of the end of the meet, including Abbandon's thing.
So with questions and so forth still fairly active, I am leaving the meeting in progress.
I plan on ending the meeting when either 24 RL hours passes without questions/comments, or either BH or DR posts an IC comment (here in the OOC, please) that it is time to pack up and go. At that point I'll post that and IC the rest of the end of the meet, including Abbandon's thing.
Sledge won't say anything IC. Though as soon as the Agents go through the "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here" routine, she'll get up and leave. And she won't try to stay last either, that way the agents don't get to ask her questions she might be willing to answer when alone with them.
I am okay with moving on. Here's a chunk of IC you can add when that happens:
[ Spoiler ]
Heading out, as a team, sounds fine (although I was hoping we could stay there). Johnson will offer Angel a ride since she took a cab here and he wouldn't mind chit-chatting with her along the way.
He'll also PM Sledge to suggest a meet and private debrief, somewhere. He won't suggest a place, though, since we don't have one. Probably part of that will be finding a new HQ close to our target. Maybe Sledge already knows a great place.
He'll also PM Sledge to suggest a meet and private debrief, somewhere. He won't suggest a place, though, since we don't have one. Probably part of that will be finding a new HQ close to our target. Maybe Sledge already knows a great place.
Okay - everyone's IC submissions have been pasted into the IC thread. There was some juggling of paragraph order, and some stuff got stuck into previous posts, but it's all there somewhere.
Now that the meet itself is over, you guys can post at will.
Now that the meet itself is over, you guys can post at will.
If Johnson splits to go meet with Fortunato or something then IC something up about Cerberus temporarily turning on his datajack and downloading the audio/video of the meet into his commlink and beaming it over to Johnson. And then shutting the datajack back down.
Will do, if it comes up, but if we're going to do any planning, it 'd be nice if we had him show up there and collect your data himself.
You need to grab your cute little breifcase with the jammer and we should all hook up at Club Rain!! Dude we are in an FBI safe house. Its bugged 7 different ways to hell and back. Fortunato would probably rather put a bullet through his head than show up here hehehe. Atleast if he still wants to stay off the radar. The only thing we should talk about in the house is the wallpaper color, and what the designer was thinking.
Yeah, that's why Johnson said "If we're going to touch bases with anyone else, we should probably leave." I figured Fortunato was not going to come here.
QUOTE (Abbandon @ Feb 13 2008, 05:16 PM)
You need to grab your cute little breifcase with the jammer and we should all hook up at Club Rain!! Dude we are in an FBI safe house. Its bugged 7 different ways to hell and back. Fortunato would probably rather put a bullet through his head than show up here hehehe. Atleast if he still wants to stay off the radar...
He's more concerned about someone else putting a bullet in his head, but yes he'd be extremely hesitant to meet you guys there.
Ok, as I expected this week has been busy.
Rocky is in for the job, but does not have a lot of thoughts on how to get it done.
The one thing he will mention is the need for bags to carry the remains out in.
FYI:
I leave tomorrow morning for my Convention and will be back late Monday night.
JD
Rocky is in for the job, but does not have a lot of thoughts on how to get it done.
The one thing he will mention is the need for bags to carry the remains out in.
FYI:
I leave tomorrow morning for my Convention and will be back late Monday night.
JD
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