Sledge

Can anyone else help as part of a teamwork test?

Well, we definitely have her full sheet now!

But gee whiz, Dire, if you were going to go to such trouble to accommodate us, you might have included a phrase or two on what you might want to do.

But she can certainly scan the hut - or - better - her agent can.
With eight dice and buying successes it only takes her a minute to identify one active node - a lot of it is open - it seems pretty clear there is a security guard in there. He is single, and likes women with hairy armpits. Send replies to Hirsute Hannibal.

So, what is Sledge waiting for?

Tempting... would make a fun scene.

Smith has taken a few for the team, already - its about time Sledge starting pulling her weight.

Fun scenes take time to write.

Now this is a surprise turn that has made my trip to the Internet cafe tonight worthy of my Friday night!

Nym wasn't interested in Sledge
Fortunato wasn't interested in spring.
But I never give up!

Smith might just get that Shadowrun double-date, yet.

It's a forum game - all we've got is time...

But no -
<puts dour GM face back on> don't take my great bemusement as an endorsement of any particular course.
If you go a more prosaic route, cool.
If you go with BH's idea, I will be more than happy to work with Dire on the scene, but per the earlier discussion, with both of us at the Con, it might be a while before it gets off the ground.

On the other hand, come to think of it, if you did go that route, what would take two weeks on the boards can be resolved in about five minutes face to face, and Dire could come back from the con fully ready to write the whole scene...or I could...whatever.

And both trolls walked right by the obvious hottie I hung in front of their noses back at the clinic without a second glance! Was trying not to let Smith have all the fun.
Now my goal of spreading the joy may be realized in an altogether...different...way.

I guess I always figured being born a troll was like being born with an horrible deformity. You pretty much stop trying after a while.

Actually, this being Shadowrun, its probably worse. If a beautiful woman shows the slightest interest in you, it is best that you shoot her in the face before you find out she's a razorgirl hired to kill you, or nanites pour out of her, or she hatches some sort of Bug Spirit or something. Just kill her and run. It is definitely not your handsome mug earning you that kind of attention. She's either going to kill you, or she's a hooker. Either way. Kill her and run, man.

Hmm. I take that back. This being Shadowrun, there is enough weird shit out there that there probably IS some young hottie (with a particularly traumatizing past) out there looking to hook up with two random violent trolls in the alley next to a seedy black clinic. There is probably a whole social network devoted to it. They probably meet at Cline's place every Friday night.... which means we JUST missed them.

THAT was probably the thing that Cerb's buddy called him about! No wonder he bailed on us so fast!

I can hardly blame him, now.

I'm ok with Sledge, with Sugar Lips expert advice (Teamwork for Sledge defaulting to Con ?), luring the security guard inside to open the door via the lure of the all natural look, then doing Intimidation, with Rocky's help, to get the "borrowing" of the corp insured GPR for a few days.
Or
Breaking open the lock and see if we can get it wireless enabled so Angel can go to town on it. (Still need to deal with guard)
Or
Breaking in through a wall(Might set off an alarm though) and just using brute force. (Still need to deal with guard)

In all cases, since there is a guard inside, we need to deal with them, and I prefer the persuasion approach as then there is a chance for the GPR theft to be kept quiet through the weekend.

Sledge has (mega) corp sec procedures as well, so if there's something there that will help, there's that as well.

Keep in mind that at the time this is taking place, Smith is in transit and/or making arrangements - but it shouldn't require too much of his time, and would give him something insanely amusing (and not overtly illegal) to do during the long bus-ride.

I would be up on board for playing "Cyrano" and helping Sledge lure the guard over. Not saying its the wisest move, but it would be Smith's vote if you pull him into the conversation (after all, he's going ot have to be dealt with one way or another).

Dude - you are forgetting - trolls may or may not be ugly to other trolls. And, as trolls, Cerb and Rocky may not be ugly. Note that said hung-in-front-of-noses hottie was also very much a troll.

A useful skill indeed...combined with dice and a specific question or line of questioning.

My ruling that you would arrive at the completion of the GPR heist was arbitrary and for convenience.

It is not impossible that you could reach them in a fairly short time span, but the fact remains that you have been busy doing constructive things, and a price must be paid in terms of time spent.

At this point, the only way you can play Cyrano is if they hold off and wait half an hour for you (even your commlink can't go back in time or allow you to be doing two things at once!).

Curse this primitive futuristic technology!

Alright, well, feel free to decide it amongst yourselves then. If you like that plan, or everything else has failed within a half-hour, I am at your service.

Also, if it helps any, I never posted IC that Smith arrived at that location. I only put him as far as the bus station - figuring he would need to find a way (probably by taxi) to get the rest of hte way. Still probably wouldn't shave off much time, though. I'm cool with waiting a half hour, or letting a different (better) plan play out.

Cheers for Adamu and his tournament team who managed a respectable third!

I leave for Adamu the description of horrors encountered.... like finding out I was a tourney gm and he was at my table.

Congrats!

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that I'm still in the game. I committed the cardinal sin of falling off the map without telling people in advance and I'm terribly sorry, but I am more or less contentedly, moved across country now.

I'll catch up with IC tomorrow, I hope, browsing through the thread suggests I missed something priceless, I'll brace myself.

Not a problem, pragma - I myself have been heinously AWOL due to GenCon.

My goal is to get online at HOME within about a week, and then get some actual quality posting done - I can't do crap here at the Internet cafe.

And Dire was a GREAT GM by the way.

Me, my giant troll left all his guns at home cuz I was under the mistaken impression that they wouldn't get through customs.
So it was improvised weapons for me...

I took out a sniper by throwing a captured microskimmer drone at him.
I took out another bad guy using our Mr. Johnson as a club.
And then I exploded a duffel bag of drugs in the faces of seven guys that had me cornered with shotguns - saved my life, but since the drugs were the target of the run, I think I cost the team a shot at second place.

I will try to get the game back on its feet before the week is up.

Okay - sorry to be so silent for so long even after the Con. Should be back to normal posting rate now.
Just posted a big bump for the other thread, but on this side the ball remains very much in y'all's court.

Although a quick review should suffice, I shall atone for my long absence by providing a recap:

Truck and cement cutter secured and waiting.
Everyone but Smith/Johnson onsite or just outside.
Guards distracted to other side of site by spirit.
Rocky and Sledge Masked to look like guards.
Angel in control of all cameras and comms to offsite security.
Rocky and Sledge outside quonset hut that should contain the GPR.
Hut has front door and opens-from-inside rear fire door.
Front door has keypad maglock that is apparently offline.
Inside, someone described by their PAN as body-hair enthusiast Hirsute Hannibal has music playing.

This means it is not wireless, not that it isn't in fact on? It's on and can't be reached wireless, not that it's actually off?

Yes - sorry for my imprecise wording.
The lock is apparently on, just Angel can't find a node for it.

Hardware + Logic (Maglock rating x 2, 1 Combat Turn) Extended Test to remove the maglock case.

Logic 3 Hardware 1 =
3 hits = 1 6 5 6
1 hits = 4 4 3 5
1 hits = Glitch 1 1 3 5
3 hits = 5 6 1 5

Adamu & DR welcome back from GenCon.

One of these days I'll actually make it to the "best 4 days in gaming", but the fact that it always falls on or very close to my wedding anniversary will make it a tough sell.

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With the most recent development Rocky will take a quick scan around for signs that the dropped cover has attracted attention and then be ready to follow Sledges lead.

JD

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I don't think we actually have gotten the cement cutter yet. We know where one is, but figured getting the GPR would be easier so we moved to it next.

JD

D'oh!!!
Okay, you are totally right. No cement cutter yet.
Just too eager.
Still, that sort of GM glitch should at least sorta help with the maglock-case-glitch...
So I won't ask for a perception roll, JD, to tell you that after a few tense moments you can still hear the music inside - no volume change...
For what it's worth...

Using the spirit to watch the guards. Just added some fluff in the IC.

In retrospect, I suppose we have cameras to do that too, oh well.

The case is off, can we Hack it now, or is it another Hardware test?

I believe, with another hardware test, you can bypass it entirely, without the need to hack it. Of course, you could probably also wire up a commlink directly to it, too.

Plug in a commlink and exploit, or turn on wireless.
Pilot(Hacking) 4 Exploit 3
Stealth 3 (7d6=3, 7d6=2, 7d6=2, 7d6=2, 7d6=2, 7d6=4, 7d6=3) = 18 hits on extended hack on the fly
Lowest level access to just open the door.

Angel can clean up logs later.

Well, I was going to say hooking up the commlink or enabling the lock's wifi were both hardward tests at half the threshhold that opening the lock would be (it's not as though the guts of the thing have a user-friendly "access me" port - that would be on the outside).

But since I am so delighted that people are taking actions and moving forward, and since at half the threshhold you would easily have made it, and since time is not a real tight issue at the moment, and since you didn't lean on Angel to do it...well, I guess I'm just happy people are taking actions and moving forward!

Off to GenCon UK for the weekend.

See y'all on Monday.

Are Rocky and Sledge dressed as guards?

I believe it is an illusion, but yes, I think you look like guards. (Correct me if I am wrong, Pragma)

You're right.

Ok, so the door is unlocked.

Whats the plan DR? Do you want to try to bluff our way in or do we just open the door and rush him?

I'm good either way, just wanted to see what you wanted to do.

JD

Since you asked. I thought we'd do some intimidation, caught dancing the night away while the other guards are doing their jobs checking out incidents, and thank you so much we'll take this GPR to safety since you're such a loser. Cya...

Ok, works for me.

I'll stand next / behind you and look scary.

If he tries to run I'll pound him in to the dirt.

JD

Okay - back from GenCon UK and other RL stuff. Hopefully be on every day, though now looks like another 10 days before I am online at home and can actually enjoy this activity.

In any case, does not appear as though I have missed much here - ball remains in y'all's court.

Well, that's a week with nothing.

Yikes.

If people are busy, that is cool, but just a "Hey I'm alive would be cool."

At the moment, no one can move forward without JD or DR declaring an action. You have talked about what you want to do....

Well it sounded like Sledge was going to lead the way in with something other that brute force and I had planned on Rocky following her lead. But I'm up for doing it Rocky's way to get things moving if needed.

JD

Still alive. Still on the bus.

I'm around and biding my time. Fort's getting increasingly comfy in the love machine's passenger seat.

Assuming the door actually opens.
Intimidation 4 cha 3 = [1,6,1,3,5,5,2] = (23)

Okay - you got through the lock and the guard is at your mercy either socially or physically.

At this point, JD and DR can continue RPing the scene, or we can go back to your bullet-pointed plan's resolution.

I need to know which (and I take the answer from the first person that speaks up!).

If you continue with regular action, just proceed with posting through the scene as normal.

If you want to go back to bullet points, I need two things to move forward:

1) Whether you now subdue the guard, or just browbeat him into letting you do what you like.
and
2) IC of whatever happens from either JD or DR.
Obviously both requirements could be subsumed in a single IC post.

I think that should cover the needed detail to get us back to the bullet point process and on to our next stop for the night.

JD

Okay - everything good.

Back to bullet points, everything goes according to plan.

The GPR is in the truck/Love Machine(?) and you are clear and away just as soon as anyone tosses up an IC post of any length covering that, according to the existing plan (OOC post 4805).

Once that is up, I will wait 24 for anyone to make any revisions they may wish to the existing Site 2 Plan, again, latest version in OOC post 4805.
That site's recon, which I believe Angel recorded for later viewing by other team members, is in IC post 1130.

Once the Site 2 plan is finalized (or left as is) I will start comparing it to the realities of that site, and we will see how far we get.

Okay - big big big news. After four agonizing months, I am finally really online at home!!!!!

And - bad for me but great for this game - it is still about a month till my family arrives.

So hopefully my "lazy GM" days are over.

As for the above request for an IC post covering the last bits of the exfil from site 1, I want to make it clear that it is not meant to be demanding or impose "homework" on people.
It is just that (A) it needs to get put up on the IC thread one way or another and (B) I always assume players prefer to write IC posts when they can.
However, I absolutely do not mind writing it.
So I will give it another 24 and then I will move things forward if no one else has had the inclination.