Dirty Dick's is only about 10 minutes from the downtown core. But you have been out trolling for trucks - so say 15 minutes to the Starbucks.

From downtown, you have to take the ferry out to Deerwalker's, so with getting on and off and waiting for it to go and so on, you are looking at at least an hour.

Starbucks is always open.

Sweet post, pragma -

cool to see your vivid transition from hermetic training to shamanic reality.

I will wait on anything about truck scouting until the team digests your post and reacts.

@Abbandon - I said in an earlier OOC that you successfully found and booked (paid for) the legit rooms in Northgate. But since that was OOC and hasn't been ICed yet, it is flexible.
It can stand, or you can wait and see what the group decides about Fort's idea.
Up to you - carved in stone once you IC it.

NOT expressing any preferences either way regarding truck or rooms - just trying to be flexible in a way that compensates for the imperfections of PbP communication.

Then I better get moving!

Update on what balls are in whose courts:

As noted, still seem to be waiting on final decision on a second room.
If and when the legit room in Northgate officially gets taken is up to when and if Abbandon ICs to that effect.
But don't run his hard work around in circles all day -
Your court, Abbandon.

Not going to IC anything about getting to Deerwalker's yet, since Johnson sent out a message to Fort.
That ball's in your court, pragma.

Since Johnson has left off his casual search for the truck, and the trolls are househunting, going forward with the truck search is on the ladies.
As noted, need some more specifics on what you are looking for and how. Once I have that we can make some resolutions.
That ball is in Dire and Konsaki's court.

As for Konsaki - as he's mentioned, he has been having 2-year-game burnout issues. Natural. I think we all really hope he comes back with a bit more regularity than his sporadic cameos, as his excellent role-playing and roll-playing have been much appreciated by all. But that will be up to him.

For now, however, it is obvious that you have been assigned a run in a heavily monitored part of town where Matrix power is essential not only to the actual run but also to the prep. Seems like most of y'all's dilemmas are currently centered around things that are huge pains in the ass generally, but really sort of minor errands for strong hackers.

Thus, until we hear from Konsaki, I am willing to entertain "matrix support requests" for relatively minor matrix tasks like searches, spoofing, disabling minor sec devices, faking low level clearances and so forth.
Nothing very dangerous - can't endanger Konsaki's character while he is on hiatus. And again, only minor utility stuff. And all this will be based on the ability to communicate with Angel and her ability to handle the workload.

Hopefully Konsaki will be back with us again soon.

Well it seems like we will be holding off on the legit motels and just relying on hotel hell. (crap forgot to put up our new Unlisted place in the locations section of the wiki lol).

Cerberus:
-Assuming Rocky doesnt have any thing he wants to take care of my vote for the Love Machine is that we start cruising around town and help look for the truck. (im not using my solitary edge for this lol, and Cerberus has bad luck any time i use my edge it can go horrably wrong).
-Not havng the knowledge of what to look for can be easily solved by havng somebody who does point him towards an area of town and to flash him a picture of fhe type of truck they need that they should easily be able to find online if not one Cerberus can look up himself if was told th specific name of the truck.
-Otherwise we are still heading towards downtown.
-About the only thing Cerberus has to offer for searching for the van is his great visual perception, image zoom, and image mag skills.
-@Konsaki would Angel want to be picked up by the Love Machine so she can us its node and be on the move in case of traces?

waiting for Jdragon's vote before proceeding

Rocky's got no plans at this point.

JD

Sledge will supply Biometric data and samples.

Busy till Wednesday this week.

BlackHat - could you do me a favor and just insert a quick line about that into a post when y'all were still at Dirty Dicks...

Well - Event Reg was a total hell.

Had to get up before five am, and then it took me over two hours to get everything done.

Even starting right exactly at the moment reg went live, two of my events were already full. Rescheduled one, but I am still short one Mission.

Hoping to get into it anyway if I can beg bribe or steal a no-show spot.

My friend actually only got two of the five or six Missions he was going for, and he started trying to register at the same time as me.

Anyway, since so many people gave me their good advice, I will say that I am indeed signed up for the SR Tourney. Anyone else doing that (as a player)? It would be nice to do it with some people I know and trust....

Done. Also added a bit mentioned the fact that she was on the hook for a few pieces of colorful construction-worker background - mostly because it ended up being part of the deal. I'm fine with it being next-to-nothing, or for her to have spent a while talking to him about it, if it is something she would be interested in doing.

Go ahead and IC deerwalkers, Fort is happy with the message. Also, I don't want to hold up the game, but I can't post much at all this week.

Not sure if that answers Johnson's message about last chance to make/change order for summoning materials, but I think the ball is definitely back in BlackHat's court.

With Abbandon having decided against the "legit" room, any of the trolls or ladies can now feel free to take up the truck search either OOC or IC.

As I said, I need some much more definite parameters about what you are looking for, where, and how, and then I will decide how to proceed from there.

The decision not to make any last call is arguably the best answer to Johnson's last call.

Ball's in my court, then? Did you want me to put together a post about the ferry ride to Deerwalkers (and assume he makes it)?
I'm not sure how much you wanted me to set that stage, or how much of it you had a vision of. Other than her parents living in a wealthy well-off house (complex?) on the island.

Did you want me to give you a general description of the gist of my goal at the meeting, or how I see it going? and then you can tell me how it differs, then I can IC the whole thing?

Ah - my bad.

I remember now that the ball was really in MY court re. the Deerwalker arrival, and I just delayed it for pragma's response.

I will IC your arrival within 24 hours.

OOC or PM me with any intentions you have besides talismongering (informational, amorous, whatever) so that I can set parameters for how we proceed from there. Mostly IC by you I would imagine, but we'll see how it goes.

Alright. Main objectives would be to basically maintain relations with a friend (and potential magical contact), maybe get some insight into what she can do (to see what holes she might fill, if Fort lacks a particular spell) and, through her, meet a talismonger or equivilent to try to pick up some of the things Fort wants. I assume that Deerwalker will have a problem with some of them (snakes skins, etc) but if not ,great. I want Adam to be sociable, but can't make it an all-nighter () because he's got to meet with the Anonymous Mechanic afterwards.

Also, if she has any news on Cal's oversees mission, that'd be worth catching up on - as well as if their little eco-squad as been up to anything. Originally, I wanted to start building relations / keeping tabs on Cal and Deerwalker, as potential replacement runners... or a potential B-squad team (if Adam can use his income from the mob-funded team to fund a second team, he can increase his income, and have an independent team that need not follow mob orders).

I figure, at this point, the job might need to impact the environment to get their attention... but if either of them seem interested in opportunities to earn more money to save mother earth, great too. I'll definitely want to be making some sort of leadership roll to try to get Deerwalker on board with the idea.

Hmmm - that's a heap lot of objectives.

I will put an IC up (late, sorry), and we will take it step by step from there, at least for the time being.

Sounds good. I'm glad you did the intro to the area. Very colorful. I'll get an IC response up tomorrow morning.

BlackHat - your IC header has your commlink as Hidden. Note that you could never have gotten onto the island in Hidden mode. If you try to go Hidden in the house, a barrage of AROs will remind you that that is an inappropriate setting for you...so I need you to either edit that or let me know for sure you definitely want to proceed in that mode.

Yikes, so it's now been a week since we have had any posts from anyone but BlackHat.

I fear there is a combination of (1) two-year burnout and (2) set-piece run (heavy planning requirements the bane of forum games) at work here.

If people are just busy, that is so cool. I have been less active than normal myself. And over the next month I will probably see some major gaps in my own posting (followed by several months of copious free time for very heavy posting).

For pragma - I know busy and also that his character is stuck warding.

That leaves four people on truck patrol, which will move forward quickly if any one of the four lets me know the search parameters I asked for a couple of posts above.

If there are deeper interest-level issues at work, it would be good to hear about them - some I already know a little about - PM or OOC is fine.

This game will continue as long as one of the six of you is still interested and active. I would VERY much hate to have to recruit any replacements - we've all invested a lot in these characters and this story.

But I know that not all gamers are into long-term campaigns, and that is cool.

Hope to see some posts soon - either gaming or just talking.

Oops, old habit. Will edit.
Since this is, in theory, not connected to our job, I don't really mind using Adam's SIN. Better be on my best behavior, though!

Well, I'm still here keeping up on things.

Rocky at this point is along for the ride while looking for the truck once getting the rooms is/was taken care of.

The problem is Rocky really doesn't have much of an idea of what they are looking for, or where to look. Add to that the fact that he's fairly confident him trying to steal it at this point would be bad.

As far as what I think we need to be looking for is some kind of flatbed industrial truck hopefully with some kind of loader and some traps to cover what ever its carrying. As for where I think out best bet would be the edges of civilization where the security is going to be less intense. Once we have found one that meets our needs, give the ladies a call so they can help with the electronic side of the security.

JD

Fort's still warding with a vengeance. I'm still here, and slightly less busy. Much less busy as we get further and further into May.

This is all I needed.

See upcoming IC post.

pragma and JD - thanks for the updates.

Cool.

@BlackHat - she is talking plenty about her magical abilities, but of course she doesn't call her powers by names resembling anything in the BBB. I note that among your incredibly wide array of knowledge skills, you have absolutely nothing related to magic - but you can default to Intuition if you want.

Yep, which was why I had him mention knowing nothing about magic - I don't expect him to. I'll roll, anyway. Where possible, I'll ask her to dumb it down for me where necessary - Even "I can alter the thaumaturgical aura of my astral guide so it can interact with the physical plane" can be dumbed down to "I can summon a deer spirit", which the uninitiated might be able to wrap his or her mind around. I figure, as far as I know, Cal's no mage, so maybe she's used to having to explain things - or maybe he didn't skimp on the knowledge skills where his girlfriend is concerned.

#D=3 : 151 n1=2 n6=0 nHit=1 (*glitch*)

Of course, with this roll, I'll be lucky if I know what a "deer" or a "spirit" is.

Okay, so Adam clearly has little to no idea what she's talking about. If at all possible, I'd like to make an ettiquette roll to avoid making any faux pas through this misunderstanding, and if possible, make the ignorance with shamanic magic come off as "charmingly naive" (rather than "Oh, forget it, he'll never catch on" - even if that IS the case) and maybe facilitating my goal of getting her to talk more about herself. Like you eluded to in the post, Deerwalker is usual the clueless one, so maybe she would enjoy the opportunity to have a conversation where she's the one who understands something and is explaining it to someone else.

#D=13 : 6561333142122 n1=3 n6=2 nHit=3

Alternatively, I know you can spend an edge use to negate a glitch (or a critical glitch), but I am not sure if you get to know the repercussions of the glitch before making that choice. I don't have my book on me, at work, and wouldn't imagine this would be edge-worthy unless it was a particularly nasty glitch. So, either way, I'll chance it - but that might be something that would be good to know for later.

I think Sledge has a date at Karnivore's at 10 PM? The call on the trucks is just before 9? I think unless Angel goes by herself to help, Sledge won't make it to either truck to help before midnight. And Sledge wants to bring Angel to introduce to Monica, and as "cover". I think that's how the timing works out.

You might want to chat with the locals near the GAZ and find out a bit more there. The main problem is making sure we can move the vehicle, not getting to it.

In the meantime there's the GPR and concrete saw. I'll need to go dig back through the thread and see what was done already, or not.

Well I thought we needed the truck to be able to move the other items?

Or did I miss understand something?

If we need to wait, we wait, just need something in IC to let us know we are waiting to cover stuff.

JD

@BlackHat - well, based on your roll (not a critical glitch, just a glitch), nothing horrifying happens, but throwing in other factors, you can forget your goal of finding out exactly what spells Deerwalker has. Feel free to continue the conversation in pursuit of your other goals.

Oh, and "I can alter the thaumaturgical aura of my astral guide so it can interact with the physical plane" is actually nothing Deerwalker could ever say. It is completely inscrutable but within the opposite direction - something like "I just, you know, melded myself into the ineffable oneness of Her inner chakra and then everything turns the most affectionate shade of maroon, which is where, you know, the spriggans coalesce into one chaotic mandala of freedom. Pigs never know what hit 'em." Highly technical but in a completely irrational touchy-feely way.

That's what the message said. As long as you are digging for the work already done on the GPR and cement cutter, there are also a couple of posts filling in your knowledge of Karnivore Karl's.

About Konsaki/Caittie

Konsaki - it is my sincere and selfish hope that you are able to rekindle your interest in our game. But it is my more sincere hope that you are having a great time in general.

Everyone else - no sign of Konsaki for quite some time. So, per the first post in this thread, I will be running him until he (hopefully) comes back, or (regretably) lets us know that he's withdrawing from the game.

When I say running I mean I will be handling all tactical decisions and dice rolling and, when necessary, role-playing (but I won't exactly be tossing any juicy role-playing opportunities that way while he's on a break).

In strategic terms (where Angel goes, what general things she does), that is up to you all. Specifically, it is up to the players Angel is with at a given time. So for right now, Angel goes where and does what Dire says. If Dire sends semi-NPC Angel to the trolls, then Abbandon and JD will be at the controls.

Hopefully we will hear from Konsaki sooner than later.

Will do.


Ha! Exactly. Yeah, that's fine. I'll just have to wait for situations where she vanashes in front of my eyes, then the switch in my head flips and I go "Ohhhhh, you meant that mandala of freedom."

One thing I wanted to bring up during this discussion of magic (which I hope is a simpel enough yes or no answer) is if Cal is a mage too. I don't really suspect that he is... but last time I saw him, he was convinced that they were both going to transform into Morlocks or something - which is something I suspect only happens to bat-shit-crazy magicians... and, even then, only when Haley's Coment flies by.

Actually, I just asked IC. Turns out, bringing up Cal in the context of magic is maybe the best way to transition the conversation into one regarding him and his group of mini-runners.

Sledge will send Angel to the trolls, and also ask the three of them to check out the GPR site and the Concrete Saw location, since we'll need to get the tuck and then use it to pick up the other two. Plan n meeting them sometime after midnight and see from there.

Pulled forward to help refresh my memory.

So, check the cemetery redevelopment site and try and find out if the GPR is there and security is as expected. Check which of the many sites where a concrete saw is likely to be is a good candidate target.

We may need a tag eraser and/or a way to disable security tags.

If brought up in team-chat at some point (past, or future), Smith/Johnson owns a tag eraser, in his briefcase of toys.
However, if I remember correctly (and there is a good chance I don't) security tags can't be erased with one - so if the gear is tagged to prevent theft, it would probably be with security tags.
I think there was a way to get rid of them, but I can't remember what. EMP, maybe. hardware tests? I dunno, I would have to review the BBB this weekend.

Okay - moved Angel to Stuck (don't be put off by the mafia presence - it's not a way to pull you back into the Louie thing - it's just an obvious place on the map that was halfway between your locations).

Since it is halfway, that means the trolls are free to post meeting her right away.

That puts strategic control of Angel with JD and Abbandon until we hear from Konsaki. As I said, I will keep control of her role-playing and dice stuff.

Timelines are slightly off, but I think it is no big deal.

BlackHat, we will continue as we are, but at some point when certain things have been resolved we may move to fast-forward mode on that meet to catch you up with everyone else.

Dire - at this point you are free to do what you want for the next 30 minutes, including jump forward to arrival at Karnivore Karl's if you are so inclined. If you go there, IC only to the exterior, and OOC me any details about how you handle entry, if you think that is important. I will IC the description upon entry.

Trolls & Konsaki - ball in your court on more scouting/stealing. We can do it play-by-play, but it would be better if you use the "outline format" I explained a few pages ago - go a lot faster both in planning and resolution.

pragma - what time is your ward done? I vaguely recall 10-ish. Even if that's not the case, let's say you complete it really fast with Snake's help - no need to have you eternally sidelined in forum play because of just warding your apartment. So you are done at ten, and so should very soon be free to join the theft team if you want, especially since it'll take them a little time just to get into position for whatever their next move is.

Okay - moved Angel to Stuck (don't be put off by the mafia presence - it's not a way to pull you back into the Louie thing - it's just an obvious place on the map that was halfway between your locations).

Since it is halfway, that means the trolls are free to post meeting her right away.

That puts strategic control of Angel with JD and Abbandon until we hear from Konsaki. As I said, I will keep control of her role-playing and dice stuff.

Timelines are slightly off, but I think it is no big deal.

BlackHat, we will continue as we are, but at some point when certain things have been resolved we may move to fast-forward mode on that meet to catch you up with everyone else.

Dire - at this point you are free to do what you want for the next 30 minutes, including jump forward to arrival at Karnivore Karl's if you are so inclined. If you go there, IC only to the exterior, and OOC me any details about how you handle entry, if you think that is important. I will IC the description upon entry.

Trolls & Konsaki - ball in your court on more scouting/stealing. We can do it play-by-play, but it would be better if you use the "outline format" I explained a few pages ago - go a lot faster both in planning and resolution.

pragma - what time is your ward done? I vaguely recall 10-ish. Even if that's not the case, let's say you complete it really fast with Snake's help - no need to have you eternally sidelined in forum play because of just warding your apartment. So you are done at ten, and so should very soon be free to join the theft team if you want, especially since it'll take them a little time just to get into position for whatever their next move is.

Okay - moved Angel to Stuck (don't be put off by the mafia presence - it's not a way to pull you back into the Louie thing - it's just an obvious place on the map that was halfway between your locations).

Since it is halfway, that means the trolls are free to post meeting her right away.

That puts strategic control of Angel with JD and Abbandon until we hear from Konsaki. As I said, I will keep control of her role-playing and dice stuff.

Timelines are slightly off, but I think it is no big deal.

BlackHat, we will continue as we are, but at some point when certain things have been resolved we may move to fast-forward mode on that meet to catch you up with everyone else.

Dire - at this point you are free to do what you want for the next 30 minutes, including jump forward to arrival at Karnivore Karl's if you are so inclined. If you go there, IC only to the exterior, and OOC me any details about how you handle entry, if you think that is important. I will IC the description upon entry.

Trolls & Konsaki - ball in your court on more scouting/stealing. We can do it play-by-play, but it would be better if you use the "outline format" I explained a few pages ago - go a lot faster both in planning and resolution.

pragma - what time is your ward done? I vaguely recall 10-ish. Even if that's not the case, let's say you complete it really fast with Snake's help - no need to have you eternally sidelined in forum play because of just warding your apartment. So you are done at ten, and so should very soon be free to join the theft team if you want, especially since it'll take them a little time just to get into position for whatever their next move is.

Okay - moved Angel to Stuck (don't be put off by the mafia presence - it's not a way to pull you back into the Louie thing - it's just an obvious place on the map that was halfway between your locations).

Since it is halfway, that means the trolls are free to post meeting her right away.

That puts strategic control of Angel with JD and Abbandon until we hear from Konsaki. As I said, I will keep control of her role-playing and dice stuff.

Timelines are slightly off, but I think it is no big deal.

BlackHat, we will continue as we are, but at some point when certain things have been resolved we may move to fast-forward mode on that meet to catch you up with everyone else.

Dire - at this point you are free to do what you want for the next 30 minutes, including jump forward to arrival at Karnivore Karl's if you are so inclined. If you go there, IC only to the exterior, and OOC me any details about how you handle entry, if you think that is important. I will IC the description upon entry.

Trolls & Konsaki - ball in your court on more scouting/stealing. We can do it play-by-play, but it would be better if you use the "outline format" I explained a few pages ago - go a lot faster both in planning and resolution.

pragma - what time is your ward done? I vaguely recall 10-ish. Even if that's not the case, let's say you complete it really fast with Snake's help - no need to have you eternally sidelined in forum play because of just warding your apartment. So you are done at ten, and so should very soon be free to join the theft team if you want, especially since it'll take them a little time just to get into position for whatever their next move is.

Okay - moved Angel to Stuck (don't be put off by the mafia presence - it's not a way to pull you back into the Louie thing - it's just an obvious place on the map that was halfway between your locations).

Since it is halfway, that means the trolls are free to post meeting her right away.

That puts strategic control of Angel with JD and Abbandon until we hear from Konsaki. As I said, I will keep control of her role-playing and dice stuff.

Timelines are slightly off, but I think it is no big deal.

BlackHat, we will continue as we are, but at some point when certain things have been resolved we may move to fast-forward mode on that meet to catch you up with everyone else.

Dire - at this point you are free to do what you want for the next 30 minutes, including jump forward to arrival at Karnivore Karl's if you are so inclined. If you go there, IC only to the exterior, and OOC me any details about how you handle entry, if you think that is important. I will IC the description upon entry.

Trolls & Konsaki - ball in your court on more scouting/stealing. We can do it play-by-play, but it would be better if you use the "outline format" I explained a few pages ago - go a lot faster both in planning and resolution.

pragma - what time is your ward done? I vaguely recall 10-ish. Even if that's not the case, let's say you complete it really fast with Snake's help - no need to have you eternally sidelined in forum play because of just warding your apartment. So you are done at ten, and so should very soon be free to join the theft team if you want, especially since it'll take them a little time just to get into position for whatever their next move is.

Ward is done around 10 PM. Lots of work due at the end of the week. Work on that then join theft team.

WOW a 5x post, thats some talent their Adamu. I've only ever seen a 3x before.

I'll get an "outline format" started as soon as I can for the evenings plans, and well see if the other two have any feedback, unless one of them gets it started first.

JD

Sounds good. If, at the same time, we want to fast-forward the meet with the mechanic (which I had planned to go to following this one), that's cool too - otherwise, if the team needs me with them, we can put that meeting off a little bit longer.

Yikes!!!
Glad it wasn't in the IC - my anal self would have had a brain hemmorhage.

What happened was that I was trying to send that just as the server went south on my Saturday morning. Over and over again my Add Reply commands totally failed, but the site was still up so I kept trying several times before giving up. Looks like it remembered all my attempts or something once things got fixed.

But yeah, if screwing computers up is a talent, then I am a prodigy.

As I mentioned, we will have to play out the mechanic thing a least for a little bit.

Mostly it will depend on how fast the other people are moving. In a perfect world we would RP all these meets to the fullest. So that's what I am doing as long as other players are not posting much.
If we start seeing a bit more forward motion, then look for some PMs about accelerating the meets.

@BlackHat - of course it should be fairly obvious - and not at all surprising - where she has been headed all night. At this point, it is up to you whether Adam takes this ball and runs with it, or somehow rebuffs her advances and keeps things tame.
It definitely needs to be established which way you choose, though. Too important for us/me not to know.

If you go the, uh, jungle route, I leave the IC to you. As much or as little detail as you like, just so there is no question of what happened.

If you, say, remain a gentleman, then please steer her away from her current course (which of course will include her Plan B - sauna or hot tub) and I will handle her response.

And a big Happy Birthday to You goes out to Konsaki - quarter of a century today!

Happy B-Day big K. Hope you did something fun.

JD

Since I haven't made up my mind yet, I suppose Adam hasn't either. Can I make a Judge Intentions roll (Well, I am going to make one, its up to you if it is appropriate) to gauge her level of interest... somewhere along a spectrum from 'not really interested in Adam, but willing to use her best asset to keep him interested in the cause' to 'willing to nail anything with two legs, Adam just happens to be standing here' to 'been wanting to add Adam as a notch on her bedpost for a while' would be great.

I got the impression when Cal and Deerwalker first pitched the previous job to Adam that one or both of them was intentionally using sex as a motivator for Adam. I doubt Cal's ACTUALLY all about other guys hooking up with 'his' girl, but if Adam has gotten the impression before that the two of them weren't exclusive, that might factor into the decision, too.