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adamu
BlackHat

Actually, almost every time you meet Franco there is strip-bar music blaring (although he has some sort of high-tech baffling system that keeps the volume down around his 'office'.
BlackHat
Yeah, but somehow I don't see him and the goons enjoying the music as obviously as these hippies. biggrin.gif In any case, Adam wouldnt' be bopping his head along or anything, since he pretty much has to keep a cool professional appearance...

But that is a good point, considering he operates out of a strip club, I'm sure Franco doesn't care as much about his "professionalism" as Adam does.
JDragon
Rocky

Ok, my next IC is up. This should throw a few kinks in the plan. :-P

Just an FYI - Rocky is just frustrated and pissed at himself for f#$king everything up, plus he feels like total sh^t.

JD
Konsaki
Wow, I did not expect that... Thanks, JD. biggrin.gif
Konsaki
Caittie is going to run down the street and if the trolls continue to follow her, she is going to turn right down the first alley she finds.
If any vehicles come screeching down the street, she will do the same.
Abbandon
@ Jdragon You fat slob!! I thought you were a boxer? lol. Ugh what to do.

If we give up now then we might as well have never had this whole scene where we were sent to kill her. So we give up and some time passes and then our contacts end up sticking us back together??

Hmmmm Rocky is so hard to interact with...usually my initial reactions are to be disgusted by his behavior, its like he is a quitter, which makes me want to have cerberus lash out. Piss and you guys are waiting on me........

I already know what im gonna do as far as caittie is concerned but im gonna have to sleep on what im gonna do with rocky hehe.
Konsaki
@Abbandon

You probably wont have to wait on your fixer. My whole plan is to get away from you guys some how and then find a safe place for the night. (Probably another coffin motel, fates save me)
The next step would be to contact either Rocky, if he turns his commlink back on, or Ceberus and demand to know the full story. Since she will be contacting you guys through the matrix, she wont feel so threatened. (2 trolls, 1 Elf... you do the math)

You guys probably blew your chances working for Louie, sucks, but Caittie doesnt really care. She doesnt want you dead though. They did risk themselves to get her out of there instead of killing her when they had the chance.

Complicated, yeah. Reallistic, yeah.
She is going to call you back for information, and depending on the mood of the conversation when it ends, would determin her whole stance with the one she talked with, and to a lesser degree his partner. (IE, talking to Rocky would change her levels of trust with him, Ceberus' too by proxy but to a lesser extent)
DireRadiant
QUOTE (Abbandon @ Nov 3 2006, 04:48 AM)
@ Jdragon  You fat slob!! I thought you were a boxer?  lol.  Ugh what to do.

the fugitive drug addicted man slaughtering boxing champ isn't stable?
Konsaki
QUOTE (DireRadiant)
QUOTE (Abbandon @ Nov 3 2006, 04:48 AM)
@ Jdragon  You fat slob!! I thought you were a boxer?  lol.  Ugh what to do.

the fugitive drug addicted man slaughtering boxing champ isn't stable?

heh
BlackHat
Something else that I didn't think of until I had already posted last night... I'll bet those animals LOVE having deathmetal blasted out of all the speakers... music calms the beast and all of that.

There is about 0% chance that the tigers are going to be all scared and freaked out when you guys open up their cages. biggrin.gif Or that the cows will stampede to get the heck out of there.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (BlackHat)
There is about 0% chance that the tigers are going to be all scared and freaked out when you guys open up their cages. biggrin.gif Or that the cows will stampede to get the heck out of there.

Mr Smith is in the nice protected booth. Sledge is in the room with the animals, and the genetic experiment monstrosity. And Cal. Guess who's going to have to do the dirty work of saving Cal and Deerwalker despite the fact watching them get eaten would be entertaining?
DireRadiant
And OOC I haven't missed the hint that this place breeds paranormal guard animals.
Konsaki
Would you like your spleen sliced and diced or cooked from the inside to keep the flavor?
BlackHat
Yeah, I mean, I hope you save Cal, and all, Deerwalker too - she's pretty cool... but I think that even as the half-tiger half-shark beast is sinking its fangs into Cal's torso, he'll be going off on some Morlock rant about how this is Nature's way, and how if metahumans hadn't interfere the half-tiger-half-sharks and the morlocks would be living peacefully together in the woods.

I think it'll take something pretty drastic for Cal to admit that the plan is foobared and that we should pull out ... that, or a good ol whack over the head with that sledgehammer.

But, like, he owes me some money, so don't put all your strength into it.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (BlackHat)
Yeah, I mean, I hope you save Cal, and all, Deerwalker too - she's pretty cool... but I think that even as the half-tiger half-shark beast is sinking its fangs into Cal's torso, he'll be going off on some Morlock rant about how this is Nature's way, and how if metahumans hadn't interfere the half-tiger-half-sharks and the morlocks would be living peacefully together in the woods.

I think it'll take something pretty drastic for Cal to admit that the plan is foobared and that we should pull out ... that, or a good ol whack over the head with that sledgehammer.

But, like, he owes me some money, so don't put all your strength into it.

Eh heh, you just made me think of the scene where the dinner horn blows and all the Eloi go quietly to their doom... the deathmetal music is the dinner horn!

BTW, the morlocks were the cannibals, the Eloi were the beautiful ones. I suspect that Cal wanted to become the eloi form, not morlock. But maybe not.

Too bad for Mr Smith Sledge isn't being paid by Cal... in fact, it's probably the other way around, Cal is blowing hard earned money from Sledge's "people".
BlackHat
sarcastic.gif
Well, if you have to "put down" my employer, Mr. Smith might try to stick you with the bill. wink.gif
JDragon
QUOTE (Konsaki)
Wow, I did not expect that... Thanks, JD. biggrin.gif

Don't thank me yet.

Just cause I stopped doesn't mean Cerberus is going to or that things will be better if Louie's guys find you. nyahnyah.gif

JD
BlackHat
Lol, yeah, that's a good point.

The trolls don't need to outrun Louie, they just need ot outrun the little elven girl - and we've already established that they can do that.
Abbandon
Cerberus

Well reading over JD's post again I got a different take than last night which made me reconsider some of the things i wanted to do, namely chase after Caittie just to catch her to say something along the lines of "fine if you think you can do better against Loui alone, catch you later." I just wanted to chase her down and catch her hehe.

And i was able to think of something more diplomatic to say to Rocky heh.

I guess now im ready to get attacked by angelo's crew from the coffin or flash forward to my apartment where i can be ambushed.........
DireRadiant
is it too late to pull the "she messed with our poor troll minds" act?
MK Ultra
Itīs never too late, but Loui might still opt to put them out of their misery. Judging from what we know about him, he dosnīt hasitate to spil blood when itīs necessary ... or when itīs not wink.gif
adamu
Konsaki, Abbandon, and JDragon

Very well done, people.

Great RP in an extremely complicated (ongoing) situation, and some nice 'moves' by each of you as well.

Now that you are all going your separate ways -

Please stay on 30 second intervals until I declare you clear of the immediate danger zones.
Once I say you are 'clear' handle your posts as follows:
departure from any location - one post
arrival at next location - one post
activity at said location - one post
rinse and repeat.
Konsaki
Here's a question for you, adam. So cloths, like the ones Caittie and the trolls are wearing, have a self cleaning feature that would repel the water somehow. I know they talk about it in the book somewhere about how suits and some cloths have an autocleaning feature for dirt and such, but would that work for water?
And which types of cloths/armor have that feature and which ones dont?

This is mainly for an RP perpose so our characters dont walk around all wet or bloody.
adamu
Sledge

Okay, I guess I need some initiative from you, and an idea of what you are going to do. The monkeys and apes will reach your location within three seconds, although what they are aiming to do is pretty hard to say.

So give me your actions for one combat turn as they move toward you. And then a second combat turn, and you are free to include a couple of different contingencies there.
adamu
Konsaki

Good question, and I have been thinking about it. As you already understand, it largely depends on the quality of the clothes. Both the trolls have expensive suits. High-end wear like that all has self-cleaning and a certain degree of water resistance (unless it is the conspicuous consumption of wearing actual natural stuff like cotton or wool - only for the rich. Obviously if it is really all natural, it will have none of those high-tech-weave features.) But for the water resist - that is for, like, light rain. That function go totally ovewhelmed for the trolls' suits tonight. On the other hand, neither of them is worried about shrink - once they dry off their suits should be good as new. Same with stains - a little blood on the sleeves will probably be fine. But a really big and heinous stain would overwhelm the self-cleaning feature.

Caittie's clothes? I assume they are basic middle-class quality, so they should at least be water resistant. If I recall correctly, she has a jacket with her - that, of course, is a functional item of clothing and as such will be fully-waterproofed. But the regular clothes - they will be full-on soaking wet.
Konsaki
Damn, that sucks. Means she will be sloshing around in pants that are way too wet and will need to find another motel or something to dry them out in.

OK, I'm going to have Caittie pull up a listing of all the Coffin motels in Seattle (big list) and then choose one that is around 10km away from her current position. She will then finish running into lit shopping district, and go around one of the bigger stores. Hopefully there is a covered loading dock around back with no one on it.
From there, she will call up a taxi to take her to that other coffin motel.

Does this sound acceptable to you?
adamu
Konsaki

That sounds fine. Go ahead and IC post through that - and you can include some close calls with Mafs if you want - they are out searching for you, but in kind of a haphazard manner.
Once you check into the next coffin, though, please hold up until the trolls are both roughly even with you in time.
Konsaki
Understood.
BlackHat
QUOTE (adamu)
Sledge

Okay, I guess I need some initiative from you, and an idea of what you are going to do.

In case it comes up (like, if I see stuff happening in the cameras) I'll roll initiative too - not that there is probably much he can do from where Mr. Smith is.

Init 7 = [2] [2] [5] [1] [3] [4] [3] = 1 hit +7 = 8

For the moment, Mr. Smith won't be doing anything, but will focus on the cameras as the group nears the dangerous cages. At the very least he might be able to slam some cages shut, or shut off the distracting music or something if all hell starts breaking loose.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (BlackHat)
.... if all hell starts breaking loose.

too late!

Though not like we weren't expecting it. smile.gif
DireRadiant
Sledge

Initiative = 2 int + 6 rea = 8
2 hits = 3 4 2 4 5 4 6 1 = 8 + 2 = 10
IP1 - run, ready weapon Hammer (Primary Hand), ready weapon Taser (Off Hand)
IP2 - Full Defense, Parry (rea 6 + hammer 6 + hammer 6 = 18)
4 hits = 5 2 4 3 3 2 4 1 2 1 1 6 1 2 6 4 2 5

4 hits = 3 5 4 5 2 6 6 4 = 8 + 4 = 12
IP1 - Full Defense, Parry
IP2 - Full Defense, Parry
4 hits = 4 3 2 3 4 5 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 5 6 5 3
8 hits = 6 5 6 3 2 6 5 4 1 2 5 5 2 1 3 4 1 5

Gee, the smart thing to do would be to run run run away. However... duty calls. Only Sledge gets to hurt her teammates.

Step one is to move out of the doorway and to the side to let everything out, hoping everything is on the way out. The basic objective is to stay in the room to keep an eye on Cal and Deerwalker, and help them out.

Round 2 -- If the animals are heading out, Sedge will stat moving deeper into the room to cover help Cal and Deerwalker out of whatever trouble they are in. If they actually run away and head for the door, Sledge will wait for them to get to the door and follow them out.

And Sledge will be messaging Mr Smith in AR, like to make sure everyone watches out for rampaging monkeys and apes and tigers.
Konsaki
@Abbandon
Your Post-fu is weak, grasshopper. biggrin.gif grinbig.gif
Abbandon
Cerberus

Well....I got this new laptop (2gig cpu, 500mb ram) for 400$ !! at a midnight walmart special thingy. Its my first laptop. The only computer knowledge i possess is what i have learned just from using them, no special classes or anything so i can fix most things unless it requires you to know stuff lol.

I've got it all up and running i think. That stupid dsl lite modem is a pain in my ass. It saves me money but it just doesnt work well. If i switch profiles on my windows it breaks and wont connect to the internet anymore even if i switch back to the previous profile. So i have to restart the computer.

Anyways....I slapped up place holders for my posts. Now Konsaki and Jdragon can post some more without waiting on me. I dont know when i will get the chance to fill them in, im knee deep in video game heaven. FF12, Phantasy Star Universe, and Need for speed: carbon................I rent games mostly and so they have time limits and im trying to to play them all lol.

I will try to make some time to fill in my posts tonight but i cant make any promises... FF12 is soooo sweet. I want to marry the woman who did the voice over for one of the female characters because the voice is soooooo sexy.

Oh yeah saturday I couldnt access dumpshock at all, not from the links in my emails, not from the web. I'll try to make more place holders if they are needed so i dont hold things up.
Abbandon
Well i decided to devote this day to writing crap. I like to write game reviews on gamespot for ps2 games. And I also wanted to bang out those posts.

I wrote a good 5-6 paragraph thread for my first post last night because i feel guilty putting you guys off and playing video games and when i went to submit it my stupid internet cut out and when i tried to back up a page so i could atleast copy the crap i had written it wouldnt let me and so i lost it all. Im sure you guys know how frustrating that is..

My stupid dsl just randomly stopped working on me. Nothing had changed from the time i started typeing to the time i tried to submit my post and it was on my new laptop and so im pretty sure these screw ups are on my providers end. unfortunately they are a bunch of idiots. I might be reverting back to dialup. I will try to see if my cable company has a similar deal like what i was getting from the phone company on broadband.

Anyways i will be getting my posts up sometime in the next few hours. I gotta train myself to write this crap out in notepad so i dont lose it if my stupid dsl cuts out.
Konsaki
Ouch, sucks to hear that. I've started doing the notepad thing too.
MK Ultra
Woh, I hate it when that happens, you definitly have my sympathy. Itīs realy worth writing on notepad, even if it makes using tags a bit more of a pita.
Abbandon
Cerberus

Perception rolls to spot anything amiss using my eyes or ears and their various modes.....before i head into my apartment building.

Eyes:
11 dice - bad weather??
1, 1, 6, 4, 6, 5, 2, 2, 6, 5, 1 = 5 hits

Ears:
11 dice
2, 6, 6, 3, 5, 3, 6, 5, 5, 3, 2 = 6 hits
Abbandon
Ok I got my other post ready but I have to wait on the results of my rolls. If it matters i think Konsaki did a great job with her get away post. It was very thorough and inspired me to try and copy some of it lol.

Well i think im done with my writing for today and it only took me 6 hours!! (including my game reviews). Now i can play my games guilt free you bastards!! mwahahaha.
Konsaki
QUOTE (Abbandon)
Ok I got my other post ready but I have to wait on the results of my rolls. If it matters i think Konsaki did a great job with her get away post. It was very thorough and inspired me to try and copy some of it lol.

Well i think im done with my writing for today and it only took me 6 hours!! (including my game reviews). Now i can play my games guilt free you bastards!! mwahahaha.

Thanks for the compliment, Abbandon. Based off what you put up for your latest post, I would have liked to have seen the one that got erased. You did a good job with this one, and I'm pretty sure that other one would have been of the same calibur.
Konsaki
Compile Rank 6 Crack Sprite /w edit and decrypt

Compile = 9 dice
3,3,3,2,5,5,4,6,6 - 4 hits

Sprite resist = 6 dice
5,1,2,3,6,1 - 2 hits

Fading resist = 11 dice (4s)
3,5,3,5,1,6,3,5,3,5,2 - 5 hits (Full resist)

Basicly, I'm going to use this sprite for RP perposes of adding an account on the building node so Caittie can edit the camera feeds to erase her image. She will think that is how Louie found her and this is just one way to cover her tracks.
adamu
Konsaki

Sprite fine. Go ahead and consider your erasure successful. Once you are in your room sleeping or thinking or whatever, stop there, please.

JDragon

Need a visual perception test.

Abbandon

You perceive nothing outside. Go ahead and put in your 'apartment post', but don't leave yet.
adamu
DireRadiant

All but one of the primates is headed straight for the door, and bypasses you. But one, the biggest bull gorilla, fixes on you from the start and charges you. He is REALLY mad - maybe it's the music, maybe it's the big steel rods jutting out of his neck, maybe he just doesn't like your looks - but he comes bounding at you with a terrific leap, howling and fists flailing.
His long arms cancel your reach.
I don't need to tell you that he's fast and looks really really strong. Big teeth, too.

As I said earlier, he doesn't reach you until your second turn, so I'm throwing out the 1st turn rolls.

On the second turn:
For the first IP he has one net success - you can use Edge if you want.
For the second IP he has no net successes.

You can IC now or wait.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (DireRadiant)
3 5 4 5 2 6 6 4 = 8 + 4 = 12
IP1 - Full Defense, Parry
IP2 - Full Defense, Parry
4 hits = 4 3 2 3 4 5 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 5 6 5 3
8 hits = 6 5 6 3 2 6 5 4 1 2 5 5 2 1 3 4 1 5

Edge = Reroll failures

18 - 4 = 14
4 hits =4 6 2 5 6 2 2 1 1 6 1 1 1 2

3 of 4 Edge left

Turn 3
4 hits 5 3 1 6 6 5 1 2
Initiative 8 + 4 = 12
IP 1 Full Parry - Rea 6 + Hammer 6 + hammer 6 = 18
8 hits = 5 5 4 2 5 5 6 6 5 3 3 3 4 3 6 3 4 2
IP 2 Full Parry
9 hits = 1 3 3 2 6 6 5 5 2 5 4 5 4 5 1 5 1 6

Sledge is -still- trying to accomplish the mission, so maybe this ape will tire out and just leave... Sledeg will continue to back away and move from the door. Making lots of room for everything to run out.
JDragon
Rocky

Perception Test
Intuition (3) + Perception (3) + Activly Looking (3) - Withdrawl (2) = 7 dice
6, 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 3 = 2 Hits

JD
Abbandon
Ok got my other post up. I had to lop off a good portion of it hehe.

Secretly im hoping to spill some more blood but Its like 4 AM in the morning for cerberus right? He has to be exausted lol. I was hoping maybe somebody was standing gaurd at the doors of my building and i could take them out with my throwing knives hehe. I will be really screwed if i have to get into a big fight now since my gun is burried under my clothes hehe. I guess i could reach through my laundry and fire the gun through the end of my hockey bag ruining all my clothes and my very useful hockey bag hehe.

I could kill people more easily with my fist but i am hesitant to use my fists against an armed opponent. Maybe after they have a knife or two sticking out of them their aim wont be so great hehe.
adamu
DireRadiant

Wow - obviously the gorilla is not getting past your Wall of Swirling Hammers technique on that combat turn.

But he's in no mood to give up either. He us just gonna keep whacking at you/trying to grab you next turn.

You are indeed well out of the way of the other monkeys, who are all pretty much gone. Cal and Deerwalker busy doing something way down the length of the room, but you don't have much extra attention to pay to them. But you don't see any more animals coming your way.
DireRadiant
Guess it's coming to the end of tonight's dancing for the man in the monkey suit.
BlackHat
For my own information, Can I see any/all of what's going on in the cameras?
Obviously, there isn't much Adam can do to stop a huge frankenstein gorilla from the ground floor, and with the music going, I can't send Cal a warning/told-you-so...

I think I would like Adam, (assuming he can see that anything is going wrong) to try to enter in some commands to cut the hacker's theme music, even if just to that room (thought cutting it completely is probably jsut as easy). Not sure how long that will take, or what sort of action it would be... and since I the VR hacker surely gets 3 IPs to my 1, he'll probably have it back on before I can fire off my next message to Cal.... but worth a shot anyways.
adamu
Abbandon

Your time stamps made your cab ride to your apartment last about 90 seconds. I don't care if you change it - just wanted to explain why mine jumped ahead.
adamu
BlackHat

I will respond to your request with an IC post.
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