Fooey will share what he has learned sofar. Please add the results of your investigations. Draw your own conclusions:

Hotel room perception:

- Johnny Wang wears gold rimmed glasses are image display and skin linked
- Johnny Wangs gold watch includes a bio monitor and skin link
- The rooms walls, floors and ceilings and windows are special sound deadening and blocking material.

Matrix Perception in Hotel Suite

- The room blocks external wireless signals.
- There are several nodes in the room that provide plenty of connections and can be set to retransmit to external nodes.
- Johnny Wangs Biomonitor watch is attempting to signal Yokogawa Ambulance Services, but are blocked.
- The Rooms node are set to Total Privacy Mode, no signals are retransmitted out of the room.
- Johnny Wang has an implanted commlink. It is also attempting to signal Yokogawa Ambulance Services.
- The hallway also blocks external signals and has it's own nodes.

The room nodes use hard wire links to network with the rest of the hotel.
- The room sensors, trideo, are on
- The biomonitor and Johnny's commlink are sending different messages to Yokogawa.

- The room node is very unresponsive.
- The room sensors are not recording.
- The biomonitor is sending a higher priority message then Johnny's Commlink is attempting.

When Ms. Green arrived:

- The signals from outside increased tremendously when the window was taken out.
- You have a new message!
- The serving cart is a very strong node.
- The serving cart is scanning the room with powerful signals

Placed Call to Hotel, asked to be connect to Mr. John Wang in this room.

There's no Mr Wang staying, nor is the room occupied, but they'd be very happy to hold a message at the front desk for this mysterious Mr Wang for when he arrives.

Sniffer search for comm traffic related to "Johnny Wang":

The only results with "Johnny Wang" are the PC commlink traffic, if any, and the biomonitor and commlink signals to Yokogawa Corporation Ambulance Services. There is no other data on "Johnny Wang". And by data, that includes things like sensor imagery. The search included as much of the hotel nodes as well.

This is unusual. Your search routine is smart enough to go beyond simple name search, and cross reference imagery, and any other personal data. Such as the Yokogawa Ambulance Services account being transmitted.

Hacking the hotel suite:

A check of the logs reveal the room has been in privacy node since about 10 PM earlier in the evening. There are several hundred generic Happy New Year messages in the message queue. The latest messages are high priority status queries from the hotel Agent, along with some queries from newspaper/media agents.

DR: What is my "new message"?

If I am reading this right, does this mean that even though the hotel has no record of the room being occupied or of Wang being a guest, the room's node is still recieving messages for him from well wishers and the media? How would they know which room to send the messages to, let alone that he was even here?

Unless the data about him being a guest has been deleeted very recently (after the messages had been sent).

I know my character doesn't know any of this yet, but I just want to make sure I understand what this info means.

Sounds good to me, although it might look strange to the hotel lady if we all go aside and talk it out for a few minutes before responding to her. (Would this cause us to "loose face" in front of her and the hotel?)

Mike is fully ready to step up and talk to her right now, but I just want to make sure it is good with all of you guys first. He might be looking for a signal (head nod, hand gesture, etc...) for him to step in.

He will probably take in a straight foreword manner with her, without many of the social niceities, common in HK conversation (although having lived in HK for a number of years he would know how to do so.) This is mainly because I personally don't know very many of them. But I am willing to give it the old collage try.

DR: If I understand what you wrote earlier, since my Cantonese is high (5) if I make a post of talking to her you will take into consideration that I, the player, may not know exactly how to phrase things in the right style, politeness, etc..., but my character would. So anything I say would be "translated" or "taken as" being correct (assuming I make a good roll) even if I personally don't write it as such?

When we have our "huddle", Fooey shares this info, so you would know it.

I assume that, like HAL in 2001, the hotel system has multiple layers, like an onion. At one level it is lying to callers about Johnny's presense. At another level it is routing messages to the room he doesn't occupy.

There could be other explanations - your "deleted" theory is just as good. You can apply similar logic to the room trideo, etc.

He has visual and audio inputs as well as other data from his sensors. He has to physically manipulate his commlink, but calls from the team are put through automatically(I assume that was how the team communicated).

Once Cloud has a chance to talk to the rest about his observations, you can all go read the spoilers for all the physical clues. Hey, 16++ dice is teh l33t .

I think it is a good idea for everyone to be explicit about their commlink access. Fooey has been limiting his communications to Gabe, because Gabe is a hacker, and Fooey thinks the rest of the team is magically active.

Since we have been on a run together, this information should be known to team members. Only a few members put the information in their PC introductions.

Yes.

The other way is to get an idea of what you want done, and Toturi can probably give a good way of saying it. Toturi has done a great job so far with the conversation.

This represents any queued messages that show up for Fooey or the team inside when the window opened temporarily. There was enough time for the commlinks to connect and collect messages that were queued. Fluff...

Yes. Teamwork will apply.

Negotiate in English, so that all can understand. Use your beautiful Cantonese (5 is very good) to explain to Ms. Green that all present do not speak Chinese.

I just hope everyone has the same strange sense of humor as me

Oh I see. Well, I wasn't aware of that.

Well, thats alright. Want me to double back and delete my post?

Fooey asked Gabe to interrupt the negotiations, to give everyone a chance to participate. I (and he) wasn't aware that you asked Toturi the same thing. Everyone had an opportunity to respond; in fact, everyone made at least one post. Most people bowed out of the process without providing any input. They didn't say what they wanted, or what they would or wouldn't do. They didn't even reveal their commlink use. I haven't figured out why; I just have some hunches.

As for Gabe's IC. I was just about to post that he better watch out that Ms Green doesn't cast a spell that turns him into a toad. I'm okay with his post; it wasn't what I would have recommended.

Considering how the previous negotiations were going, and the various attitudes expressed (and left unexpressed) sofar, I think it would be entirely appropriate for other characters to object IC at this point. I picture the party bickering rising in intensity until Wu Xian restores order by firing his gun in the air.

On the other hand, Willow could hijack the negotiation by making some off hand remark about testosterone. or Mike could make a similar comment about youthful exuberance. They were the only other ones that expressed an interest in negotiating.

I recommend that you continue to wait until Monday, and see what happens.

Unless she doesn't want to get some lovin' for the night

She might not even need a spell to turn you into goo.

oh man... thats just nasty

You were the one bragging about your strange sense of humor. I have a feeling that the toad comment went right over your head.

Try walking around all day in the world of U-mans, your eyes three feet off the ground, without thinking like a ferenghi.

It is possible that Willow is hiding that particular talent. Gabe and Fooey are the only mundanes in the group.

Some of us had been working via PM's with the other "negotiating" characters as well as our GM "behind the scenes" trying to work this out and move it forward since others had expressed the desire to keep their PC's out of the negotiations for fear of sabotaging them with their lack of skills.

As for the commlink bit, I missed it in your post completely and since MJ had asked Toturi how Cloud communicated, I glossed over your suggestion for being open with those details.

As for Willow, she's got AR gloves and a subvocal mic. Hopefully that clears things up from my end. As for what she will or won't do, that's up for negotiation.

Personally I thought MJ's post was quite in character for Gabe, and humerous to boot.

hahahahhahahhahah
I'm having tons of mental images that will keep me up at night

Nope, not hiding that particular one...

But if we're thinking Gabe's out of line for hitting on the hotel staff, Hikaru grabbing him away suddenly isn't gonna look any better

Unless it's played out like a lover's quarrel *runs*

To be truthfull, I thought that a few of you might think that when I posted that. Though we, as players, know there is nothing going on (at least thats what I think), it doesnt mean that Ms Green and the other characters know.

My post was meant as the pause button. No offense meant to the player, but the "don't smirk" comment was to convey the seriousness of the situation. Until we decide what to do, may I suggest we leave off posting ICly?

MJ, are you ready to post? DR, can we proceed? Or do you want us to wait?

I don´t know if you count me among the ones not posting an oppinion, since I rejected actively participating in the discussion. I think I have said what my PC would like to gain from this negotiation. I did post my com-status and was still waiting for a definit post (IC or OOC), that there would be a com-conference, so Si Wu could reley his opinion to the negotiators.

BTW, I don´t know what would Fooey make to think that Si Wu is not mundane.

Mister Juan

I think there are quiet a few pc that would interrupt Gabe in his little flirt - Si Wu among them.
It´s up to DireRadiant, how we handle this. Since there was no com-conference yet, I think it isn´t unrealistic for Gabe, to start his avances an escalate the situation somewhat - I think he wouldn´t have come that far, before beeing interrupted, but that´s a flaw of the medium and I don´t think it is stretched too far here.

ICly my PC would probably interrupt at approximately the following point:

By saying something like: "Ms. Green, may I ask you to give us a moment of privacy, please?" slightly raising the voice, to get her attention and cut Gabe´s conversation.
If noone else would react even earlyer, or DireRadiant decides we are handling this another way, I´d put up an IC post tomorrow night.

Actually, I don't have you as awakened on my cheat sheet. I just have you as a Martial artist. I may have jumped to conclusions, as there are three other adepts in the group.

"Best keep shut and thought a fool, than open mouth and remove all doubt".
-Honorable Father Chan