I could go somewhere really wrong off that, but I think I'll just pass that by.

So, new program set-up for conversing with hackers.


Wanted to wait for either or both of Dire and Pragma to post that they were going to move into position, but its been about a day, and I got ancy. Feel free to still post otherwise, or if Adamu or Konisaki want to keep things rolling along they can move forward.

Since Cattie's PAN is passive, I have to send a request to establish the connection, first - so she might jsut decline that, in which case the group goes with plan B once everyone is in position (Plan B is Smith opens the coffin door while the other two keep her from running).

Smith is hoping to get her curiosity when she recieves a connection request for encrypted chat from some unknown person - figuring a hacker will be more comfortable in talking online... but well aware that it will probably try to do somethign funny on his system as well... so before sending he switched out programs to beef up defenses. Hopefully, its a nice civil chat. We'll see....

Waiting and not waiting

Tough call. So many factors.

Some games move pretty slowly anyway. I try to keep this one moving fast.

Note comments in the first post of this thread - once we have waited about 48 hours, unable to move forward for lack of posting, I will nudge things along.

In any case, this isn't exactly a huge life or death scene. Nor is it any particular player's moment to shine that we don't want to deprive them of.

My hesitance, and I think everyone else's, is that pragma really did wait on us for a long time,and we want to give him the same courtesy. And if this were a big magic scene or something, I probably would urge us to wait another day.

But it has been three days with no word (I am not worried - pragma is a consistent poster - we all get bogged down with RL or whatever from time to time), and if all we are waiting on is for two people to get into position outside a door, then I think it is safe to say that they are, indeed, outside the door.

The fact is that by declaring that for them, we actually increase the chance of something truly interesting happening once they do get a chance to get online.
Missing one scene in no way means less play once one does get online - it may often increase the chance to play if the game has been moving forward.

Again, for some crucial scenes, or scenes that just seem perfect for one particular character, there is latitude - but this is hardly such a scene.

So I think it is safe to send the message (hope I didn't confuse anyone by throwing the message from Franco in there right at this moment).

I might not be able to write up a IC post for around 8 hours or so... Gonna be a busy night for me over here and it might have to wait till after work.

Caittie
I dont have a BBB with me, so I'm sorta running off memory right now.

Compile R6 Crack Sprite /w Edit and Scan
Compile + Resonance = 9
2,5,1,6,6,2,3,5,4 - 4 hits

Sprite resist = 6 dice
3,2,2,4,5,5 - 2 hits (2 Tasks owed)

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

I'm ordering the sprite to scan for this unknown transmission.

Scan test = 12 dice (1 turn per)
6,5,6,1,6,6,5,3,3,1,5,4 - 7 hits
2,6,6,2,6,5,5,3,4,6,1,3 - 6 hits [13 total]
6,2,1,3,5,6,6,5,3,3,5,6 - 7 hits [20 hits total]

I'm going to have this done while I reply to Adam's communication.

@DireRadient

ROFL @ Sledge...

@Konisaki
Don't make Sledge come in there after you!

It is easier to get a girl out of a coffin when you don't care too much about keeping her working after you are done...

@Sledge
That timer is your 20 sec ETA, right? Not another one of your "Better run, the buildings going up anyways" timers...

Oh, and loved the characterization of Mr. Smith. Very accurate.

I'm pretty sure "Breeder" isnt a viable street name.

Hehe, just wait until it´s time for paranoid John to use streetnames

Hi, I´m X, you can call me Y in public and Z on the phone, please use O to leave me messages on the net. You can find me on the forums under the handle P, for refference you can ask your contacts to put an ear out for Q.

Y & Z will be different on each job, and X will change from contact to contact and O & P will change on an irregular basis of course

What you don´t have photographic memory

(just kidding)

Heh, thats easy enough to fix, I'll just have Caittie hack your comm and have it broadcast, "Hi! My name is Bob."

Some names I'm thinking of, anyone else have suggestions?

Mouth
Mouthpiece
Spokes - abbr. of Spokesperson
Screamer .. e.g. he's a screamer... talks a lot under certain circumstances...
Spinner - spin doctor
Lips
Flapper
Jaws

OK, here's a sick bit of life imitating art...

New guy started at work the other day, I just met him for the first time.

His name? Adam.
Last Name? Lear.

Uber creepy part? He looks a damnable bit like BlackHat's picture, only a little more scruffy. I think I kinda went a bit pale at work.

Ha!

If I were you, I would get out of the building. Its not the first time Adam Lear convinced someone it was his first day on the job just to have the building blow up later....

your street name doesnt have to tell people what you do. If you dont have any inspiration you should just wait and maybe he will develope one as we play.

I hate making lists of unispired names but oh well:
-D2 (door 2 door salesman)
-PR (public relations)
-Sumi Nona (anonimus backwards and split up)
-Nobidi / Nobadi (nobody)
-Spinner / Dr. Spinner
-Spider (those who weave lies)
-Hagus (look up hagus fish lol, they produce massive amount of slime which makes them very slippery)
-Gon / Gonna (big stretch get ready.....liar liar pants on fire = the std gonnerea(sp?) which makes it burn when you pee lol. )

Ok im out. I'd rather watch you grow into a name than pick one at random but good luck finding one.

Lol *I'M* fine with Mr. Smith, Mr. Johnson, or picking a new name for every job.. .as appropriate... but I think Dire/Sledge is looking forward to making up a single nickname for me so she can keep them straight.

See, that´s why X changes from contact to contact

Alias (even though it makes every one of us think of a hot secret-agent chick, it would´t have that ring in 2070)
Names (as in 'Man of many Names')
Con or Etiquette, maybe Influence (Leadership or Negotiation would sound crapy thought )
Tongue or Silver Tongue
Suit or Mr. Suit (though that dosn´t actually fit in this scene)

Mini J

Or "Gopher"... Gopher Shadowrunners, Gopher Louie, etc...

We'll figure one out eventually! Best if it is tied to an IC event.

Bulletcatcher

Sorry I fell off the face of the earth -- busy week.

Any rate, summoninng a watcher and a force 4 beast spirit. Telling the watcher to let me know if anyone comes through the door.

Watcher:
Summoning: # dice: 10 :: 3 6 1 3 6 6 6 6 4 1 -- 5 successes
Drain: # dice: 12 :: 6 3 3 3 4 2 1 5 1 2 6 5 -- 4 successes

Beast:
Summoning: # dice: 10 :: 3 3 2 2 3 5 1 2 4 4 -- 1 success
-- Curses!
Drain: # dice: 12 :: 3 1 6 1 2 3 5 3 5 4 4 1 -- 3 successes

Trying for beast again (assuming the first fails) (also force 4)
Summoning: # dice: 10 :: 5 1 6 2 6 4 5 5 2 6 -- 6 successes
Drain: # dice: 12 :: 6 6 4 4 6 2 2 1 3 2 6 6 -- 5 successes

Finally, are the coffins visibly warded?

@Pragma

Adamu has said in the past that as long as the thing you are summoning is R6 or below, you can roll the resists for it. It just speeds up the game that little bit.
At R7 and up though, the spirit or sprite has the option of using Edge to try and resist. That's when Adamu has to step in and start rolling.

@BlackHat

Just thought of it, but Caittie doesnt have Encrypt on her commlink, so encrypted communications above R1 (comes with the base OS) is pretty unlikely...

@BlackHat

If you accept the connection, a window in your AR opens up showing 'real time feed' of Caittie's avatar with the village behind her. You dont see the sprite or anything else that is going on in her node though. Unlike the picture I have on the Wiki, under my matrix page, she doesnt have a sword and she is wearing shorts instead of a skirt.

She is conversing though her commlink, so you see that commcode contacting you back.

Thanks Konsaki for the reminder about saving post cycles on summoning/compiling tests.
But no sweat pragma, I got this one -
No drain damage but - yes- summoning failed, then no drain damage plus you got 6 services.
No wards apparent. In fact, on the astral you pereive no magic in this place at all besides your own stuff.

Dire - did you actually DO something with the power down in the basement that I should know about, or was that countdown just your ETA to Caittie's room?

I think everything that needs resolved here is pretty much handled. Scream if I forgot anything.

Can anyone give a reference for all these programs that automatically come at rating 1? The only one I can find is Scan, in the program description, but I am hearing about encrypt and browse and so on. Am I missing an important paragraph somewhere?

You only need decrypt if you don't have the right passcode/key. So, assuming you hand them the key over normal communication (which, if someone was eavesdropping right then, they might have also) they don't need anythign to decrypt... the decrypt program is only for when you're trying to decrypt an encrypted message for which you don't have the key.

Adam Lear is Verbose

why, well it's a long long story....

Caittie

Sprite hacking into Motel Node to set up an account with admin rights
If an alarm is raised at any time, the sprite will use suppression ability to delay it 3 turns.

Hacking on the fly = 12 dice (1 IP)
6,1,2,1,3,5,4,4,5,6,5,2 - 5 hits
1,3,5,1,6,2,3,3,2,2,1,4 - 2 hits (7 total)
1,3,3,3,6,6,6,1,2,4,2,4 - 3 hits (10 total)
12/4 = 3 hits (13 total) [Firewall + 6 = TN for Admin rights]

Locke will create an admin account which Caittie will log in with, which is his remote task and he decompiles.
Caittie will pull open the security cam feeds for the building and look around, internal and external.

Konsaki

Unless you try to get into the money - which is basically a whole separate node with lots of hardwired stuff - you have no problem at all with this coffin hotel system. Note, however, that about half the cameras are on the fritz.

Caittie

Can I see the other 3 PCs?

Does Adam see her on the hotel's main node (where he is also logged in as Admin, and has been paying his AR attention) ?

IIRC, matrix perception is Response (or some other commlink attribute that is all 5's) + Analyze? or is it browse?... I put analyze in the program line up for pretty much this reason (and also to help detect against hacking attempts against my own commlink), but it could be browse.

If its browse, I guess I don't, but if its Analyze, here's my roll (opposed by some other commlink attribute+Stealth? or is it threshold = stealth?):
#D=9 : 154622645 n1=1 n6=2 nHit=4

Matrix Perception test
Computer + Analize + VR + TM Bonus = 10 dice
4,5,6,6,6,4,2,4,6,4 - 5 hits

Ah, if its the computer skill, and not a commlink rating, lop off my last 4 dice, putting my total hits at 2

:-/ Grumble grumble, wish I was a better hacker.

Looking at this scene OOC, it's ironically amusing. If you just compare it to the last time Caittie found some people looking for her outside her coffin door.

At first, you might think two combat trolls would be bad, but one is a former EMT, the other a down on his luck professional boxer. Even though they carried LMG and guns and stuff, they looked scary, but were they really? Turned out to big pussy cats.

Now compare to having a militant metahuman terrorist organization internal enforcer and a former government awakened top interrogator standing outside. They don't -look- scary, no LMG or heavy weapons, Sledge doesn't even have a firearm with her. Yet, I know exactly which pair would most likely take out any target they were sent after.

And then there is the college kid sitting on the bench, up front, typing away in AR.
Edit: Course, he's a pussy cat, too.

@Konisaki, if you can look up what the matrix perception roll opposes, we can handle whether or not we see each other ourselves. I just don't know if the threshhold is our Stealth programs, or something we roll that includes our stealth programs... and I'm at work, so I can't look it up.

It´s opposed to Stealth+Hacking (or Stealth+Firewall against programms and nodes) if a Stealth-Programm is running. If not the GM sts the Threshhold.