Lol, well, they got them up there somehow, so I'm sure there is a way to get them down.

Will attempt to answer these questions for Sledge, if the answers are available to me.

Of course, for all I know Deerwalker will just whistle up an eager spirit and have it whisk all the animals out. Entertainment all on it's own.

@Adamu

How many pedestrians are out on the streets right now? I know its night and with the rain as it is, my vision will be dropped, even with my elven eyes.
How heavy is the rain now? Around 30min ago in game it was heavy enough to mess with vehicle sensors... thats pretty heavy.

Konsaki
You got five successes on your perception test for the street, so I gave you all the dirt.
Just a handful of refugees here and there, scattering to make themselves scarce.
Rain is, like, yeah, really really heavy. Between that and the sprinklers everyone is soaked to the bone. And yes, it makes visibility a bitch.

Rocky & Cerberus

Ok the dynamic duo will keep moving down the alley following the direction that Cattie went. Rocky will lead , while Cerberus watches the behind them.

If they see movement at the fence, they will open fire trying to catch them as the climb over, and keep moving.

Once we get to the street we will see if we can see Cattie and follow her, if she can't be seen we will just have to pick a direction based on what we see & hear at that point.

JD

JDragon

Okay buddy, why don't you give us an IC post. Please include the following points, but within those parameters add as much fluff as you like -

* Cerberus dives over fence.

* You both start running north behind the warehouse - you see elf girl just getting to the far north fence as you start to run.

* Cerberus tosses a grenade over the fence as he runs, then reloads his weapon as he runs.

* It goes off when you are about halfway to the elf girl.

* You get to the north fence just as she is going over the top. You can easily see where she goes since you are both taller than the fence.

BlackHat

You can get just about any info on this place you want, now that you have admin access.
To keep things moving right now, I am just going to incorporate your replies into IC posts to Sledge.
You can continue to post whatever IC mayhem you wish from the guard booth - just throw in a line of two about accessing info for Sledge once in a while.

Oh, and you will have a real hard time tracking all the hippies, because the four hacky-sackers each went their separate ways. You can't keep your tracking all of them through manual manipulation of AR. Maybe a Logic + Software (2, one minute) test to teach the computer to track them all for you....

So much for escaping the two hornheads...
Still, waving around with a LMG and a Warhawk while chasing an elven girl cant look right.

I guess I need to improve my athletics or something. Right now, I CANT outrun a troll. Period.

Elf base run speed - 25mpt
Troll base run speed - 35mpt

I have to get 5 hits on a sprint test to even pace one of them running normally...
First time it's come up for me, but if you got a troll chasing you and your not in a cluttered or crowded area, your sorta screwed.

Oh my...

They are just letting the animals loose inside the building they are about to blow up, there's no easy access to let the animals just run out, there is a special unknown genetic experimental specimen in it's own little vault, and all the assault team are wandering around and can't be easily tracked.

Is that about right?

It's like a halloween slasher flick.

Logic (3) + Software (1) = 4 dice. :-/
2,6,2,5 = 2 hits, so one minute to do the programming. Since the timeline jumped ahead two minutes, I'll go ahead and post the action - delaying reloading the weapon until the cameras are safe.

The basic plan will be to have the security node's edit software (or edit running on my poor little meta-link) notice movement on any of the camera-feeds, and cause those cameras to appear as AR windows. Cameras without movement for some threshold will vanish - and the tricky part would be trying to get the computer to logically relate movement stopping in one camera and starting in another to equate to understanding that the object moved from one camera's FOV to another, and to replace the window with the new camera's feed. I'll have the same process looking at the exterior cameras as well, so that those can demand less of my attention.

I would also like to bring up an AR 3d representation of the building's layout, with the AR windows of the cameras somewhat relating to where those cameras are in real life - and route all of this data to Sledge's commlink once its set up. Smith will also start marking locations both on the map, and make them available to show up as AROs in her own AR.

Will attempt to give Sledge admin access as well (if, as an admin, I can create such an account - otherwise, I'll make her a security user or something).

Tossing the idea over the fense to Cal so that he has a chance to take credit for it. Some of Mother Earth's creature will do well if left alone in this area, but herding a bunch of cows 100 meters from a blown up building isn't really improving their standard of living much - especially considering someone will be on the scene in minutes.... If a tiger jumps out, it'll probably be shot.

I sort of assume his response will be "It'll be okay" or something, but didn't want to speak for him.

Ok, the way I figure have Caittie's thinking in mind is she thinks there are 3 parties at play here: Mob, Trolls, Caittie.

She and the mob are on deadly terms. Basicly they want Caittie dead and she doesnt want to die.
Caittie and the trolls are on unfriendly terms. They started out on the Mob's side, but basicly with them not killing her they are not with the mob, but arnt on good terms with her. They did try to kill her afte all.

She is trying to get away from the Mob and also the trolls at the moment. The world went nuts for her since 4 days ago and she has lost everything. She just wants to be left alone and no one is letting her.
The rain, wind and night are all stacking, making the situation worse for her. To make it worse, she cant trust the Star anymore.

To make everything clear: She just wants to escape everyone involved with this situation.

Have you considered letting Caittie think about the fact that Loui found her even though she is so far off the grid, or atleast looks that way from what i have read maybe i missed some things you did to leave a trail.

And if you let her think that has she thought about the trolls being her best chance of survival since they are basically in the same boat. Maybe nothing we have said has conveyed how screwed we are for turning on loui.
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Cerberus's mentality is pretty basic, he doesnt have any shell shock from the fighting, but he is kinda lost in his own little world trying to figure out how in the hell he is going to not get whacked by the mafia. All he can think about is how compromised he is, they know where he lives, they know what he looks like, everything, I mean Cerberus is even wondering if his contact Ezekiel had something to do with all this mess or if he could still be used.

Well, Caittie hasnt had alot of the 'OMG I'm being shot at' experience that Warren had in his day to day job. She was a normal high school student before the 'Hitting Bottom' thing and is having a hard time adjusting. You have to remember that its only been 4 days since her father and friends died due to the actions of the mob.
Right now she isnt really in the frame of mind to think about what the trolls are laying on the line for her. Her mind is sorta being over stimulated along with her emotions.

Once she is 'safe' and able to relax, she will probably think back on everything that has happened, and thats when she will wonder about why you guys spared her life. You didnt actually save her, since Ceberus did open fire once, but you guys didnt kill her too.
She will also wonder how Louie found out about her and what she needs to do keep him from finding her again. She might call up Ceberus sometime afterwards, since she has the hidden account he doesnt know about. Maybe Rocky too if he turns his commlink back on.

As a player I know that Louie finding out where Caittie was, was GM fiat. Considering the ammount of elves in the city and how many red hair girls there are, I dont expect him to fly out of nowhere to ambush her again anytime soon. I could be wrong though...

Will get the IC up as soon as I can.

Work and home have been busy last few days.

JD

Carl's Coffins Crew

Okay - everyone is all caught up with everyone. The trolls on one side of the two meter fence, and Caittie just over the other side. Everyone aware of each other.

From the south, you can hear lots of shouts, but no sign of anyone coming over the fence (that's obviousl, don't-need-a-perception-test stuff).

The only way we need initiative right now is if
A) Caittie tries to get away from the trolls
AND
B) The trolls try to catch Caittie.
On that note - until we hear otherwise from him on this question, Cerberus is going to do whatever Rocky does.

Any other combination and you guys are free to OOC and IC, just not more than about 20 or 30 seconds a shot.

So let's get general intentions up. As soon as anyone sees that A and B are going to be in effect, that's your signal to roll initiative and declare/roll.

As soon as anyone can see that it will not be both A and B, then go ahead and start posting as noted above.

Abbandon

Not sure if you are officially back or still just posting opportunistically. I will continue to fill in the blanks between your posts until you tell me you are officially back with us.

BlackHat

I hate to be picky, but Idenshitech's parent company is Parashield. I wouldn't even bother to make the correction, except that it's a fairly well established company in the SR universe, so I wanna be straight that it is that company.

Everyone

Many RL things coming together all at once for the next couple of weeks. I will definitely continue to post, and hopefully will mostly keep up the usual pace, but if it gets erratic, not to worry.

Did I say somewhere that that wasn't the case (so I can fix it)? Although I did get the impression that Parashield was a company that Idenshitech hired out for security... although now a lot more stuff makes sense.

Anyways, I had intended to only give that suggestion to Cal, so he had the option of taking credit for it... but its not really worth reposting, including Sledge isn't a bad diea, considering I already knew Cal would shoot it down.

Either way, I'm pretty happy I won't be sharing a van-ride home with a tiger.

Other than trying to get Sledge admin/security access to the node, I think I'm set until Cal & Co. start opening up the dangerous cages.

Ok, knowing more of what is going on, I'm going to have Caittie continue to run left towards the shopping district. She is going to be running at her 25m normal running pace.
Caittie still wants to get away from both the mob and the trolls, but she is not going to do any sprinting or hiding checks since they are fluitless atm.

A - The street is practicly empty, so she cant use shadowing to ditch the trolls in a crowd
B - She is in plain sight to the trolls, so cant hide due to that fact and the fact that there seems to be no debrie on the streets to hide in.
C - Running is not an option because she cant hope to outrun the troll's base speed of 35m.

BlackHat

Getting Sledge the admin access is no problem.

Sorry about the corp confusion. Parashield is a division of MCT. They hire out security animals. They appear in canon quite a bit. Idenshitech is a research subsidiary of Parashield. I mentioned it because more than once you have called Parashield something else - Paratech or something. It's not a big deal as long as we are all on the same page now.

Cal is a low-tech guy - he doesn't even have earbuds, so he has incoming messages set to come through on speaker, so however you sent it, that's how it came through.

Konsaki

Okay, A, B, and C are all reasonable (although almost anything is theoretically possible if you roll well enough or come up with a cool enough idea).
So since you are just going to cruise along at a regular lope - I will say that

INITIATIVE IS UNNECESSARY.

Everyone go ahead and post IC and/or OOC if you need something. Again, let's keep it to 30 seconds a shot - you may or may not be out of the woods yet....

I could think up something interesting right now, but in the current situation, I belive it would most likely result in my ace being wasted.
I'm going to keep it in the hole until a more opportune time.

Lol, okay. That sounds good.

Cerberus

Well nothing got fixed with my computer but it looks like its working as well as it ever did so i guess i will say im back officially.

Obviously I have to wait for Konsaki to do her thing but Cerberus will take 3 seconds to stuff his gun into his hockey. Cerberus should still have a dirty wet suit on with some blood on it around the cuffs from working on that asian lady but atleast the gun will not be visable. Jdragon whoever gets to post first after konsaki can mention something about rocky pausing to wait on cerberus as he sees him putting the gun away and then Cerberus telling him to keep going.

Cerberus will chase after rocky and caittie and hopefully we corner caittie someplace. It would be great if Caittie had a crazed frantic look in her eyes as she looks back at the pursuing trolls so we can maybe see she is running from us as much as anything.

things i'd like to happen over the next few posts...
-catch caittie
-grab a taxi
-get to my house and get most of my essentials asap
-find someplace to hole up, maybe the barrens, maybe the underground?
-do alot of talking with caittie

If the trolls had to keep using actions fighting off mobsters Cattie could theoreticalyl get more actions to make athletic checks in... but considering they get 3 IPs a round, it is very very unlikely. It owuld literally have to be raining mobsters.

The trolls can catch up after around at around 300m from the fence we all just jumped over. I think Caittie had 2 turns to do normal running at 25mpt, since Ceberus is going to store his gun and they still had to jump over the fence.
Still, with their 35mpt base run speed, its only 30seconds before the catch up, not that long.

Once you catch up to her and then try anything, thats when initiative would start, if you get that close.

Yay for the return of the other green-eyed monster (the one that´s not a TM)

Happy to her tht your box works again!

Heh, yes, welcome back Abbandon.
Its no fun taunting a NPC.

... I didnt mean that I wanted you to jump time ahead 30 whole seconds to catch up to me... or are you letting me have a 30 second head start?

Thanx for the welcome backs hehe.

I wanted to say that I will be enjoying any slow down in gameplay that happens. I currently have FF12 and Phantasy Star Universe both rented for the ps2. They are both awesome and I am trying to squeeze ever single second out of my day that i can into them.

As I play Cerberus and I lement over how big and ungainly his gun choice was I am wishing Shadowrun had this really awesome technology that has been in the movie/comic "Ultra Violet", and one of the game im playing right now PSU.

They both have this technology that allows items to basically be compressed and stored in a device which allows them to take up no room. I dont know how but you can also access the device and take the item out which then makes it appear in your hand or whatever. In the movie ultra violet she used these devices at her wrist to store her guns, swords, and ammo. In PSU the main character uses it to store clothes, weapons, and a hover board.

In shadowrun it would be wicked because you could carry around rocket launchers and heavy machine guns and when your not using them you wouldnt even be seen with them they would just disappear into a tiny device hehe.

You talking to me Konsaki? Adamu said he wanted time to go by in 30 second increments so thats what i did. I think you should forget about how long it would take us to catch up to you realistically, i mean there isnt anything being done that is time sensitive.

Maybe i screwed up by i think i left my post open ended. I had caught up with rocky and we are both running after you and then i was like "hey we gotta catch her" and i yelled for you to stop but as of whatever i time stamped my post we still have distance to close with you so we havent caught you yet.

Is a gyromount any less conspicious than the machine gun that goes on it?

I suppose survival of the fittest will work for eco terorist cells as well.

WB Abbandon!

@Abbandon

Ah, ok, my mistake. I thought you were insinuating that you guys caught up to Caittie in one go. So you guys are what, 20-30m behind Caittie still then?

@BlackHat
Yeah, I was wondering that too, but the gyromount does have a quickrelease switch that he could have triggered when he threw the LMG into his bag. Folded up, it should probably fit into his bag too, though, that has to be a pretty big bag and getting full with all the gear he has.


Is that a LMG in your bag or you just happy to see me?

EDIT: I'm going to hold back from posting off your last line, Abbandon, until JD posts his character's thoughts or whatever. No need to leave Rocky just lumbering along without saying his thoughts.

well i dont know exactly what a gyroharness looks like but i envision that 99% of the harness is under his suit. Around his waist there is probably a metallic arm sticking out from underneathe the coat of the suit that supports the gun.

Based on the desription from the book, I really want to say it would be worn externally to the suit. For one thing, the suit will look like crap with it underneath. For another thing, it would be incredibly uncomfortable to be wearing around all day - reminds me of when I was in junior high school playing D&D and we would all be camping and sleeping with all of our plate mail on - so just for RP purposes, I had assumed you put it on right before going into the hotel. As stated in the rules, it only takes a complex action to get out of, so I now assume it is either A) still on you, conspicuously outside your suit, or B) in the bag with the weapon. Just let me know which, Abbandon.

And good to have you back.

Hardy har har.

Actually, back in college we mocked them pretty bad, but we experimented with working it into our SR campaign a bit. One time I some hauled of my players right out of a table-top session and marched them over to a nearby rave and sent them in, telling them to stay in character, that it was Penumbra. Then I recruited some girl on the spot to go and make contact with them, bring them out to meet me (the real contact).
A few of us used to enlist non-gamer friends to come in and play Johnsons or other contacts.
But all the die rolling ("I do astral perception" "I'm looking for corp logos", blah blah) just kept blowing the whole thing.

K, A & JD

Okay, the IC thread looks fine. We'll wait for JD to move forward. Let me know if you need anything.

BH & DR

In-the-meat verbal communication (barring filters or whatever) will now be next to impossible.

cerberus

Ok thats fine. I still have my harness on. We are not out of danger just yet so i dont want to take it off. I just put the gun away so as to "try" and reduce the fear and panic that would result in anyone looking at Cerberus hehe.

Everyone
My PM box acting weird lately. For instance, it just told me I had three new messages and I could only find one. So if anyone wrote to me today and did not get a reply, you might want to resend.