Just to let everyone know, I'm going to be out of town visiting parents this week, and I'm not sure if I'll have frequent internet connection. If I can get on, I'll still pitch in, though.

I guess for now Mr. Scorpion will head back to his place if nothing here requires his presence, since his contacts probably don't have a whole lot on Mitsuhama to offer.

I wanted to give everyone a chance to do whatever their character wanted during that evening, make calls, etc. before moving on to the next day. So far I have:

Mr. Scorpion heading out for the evening
Nvwati crashing at the safehouse after warding
A-In sleeping off his headache at the safehouse

I'm not sure what the following characters are doing for the evening:

Patrick and Chiller may or may not be making safehouse "upgrades" or arranging for slightly more comfortable surroundings

Once I hear from them, we can fast forward to the morning and probably do the astral recon with Nvwati. Someone might want to go on a tour at the same time too, who knows.

Chiller will be making the commcall to Streets, then heading out and picking up chairs, cots, blankets, food, water etc for an extended sleepover/camping trip out the safe house.

I haven't posted IC since I don't like posting twice in a row without giving everyone else a chance.

I'll try to write something up before tonight. Patrick will definitly make his little round of calls and get his network working. He's going to give a hand to Chiller to pick up /find/bring gear to the safehouse.

Chiller will need to borrow someone's tag eraser before he goes shopping. Anyone at the safe house have one for him to use when he asks?

Mister Juan
I just posted IC and left it open what you wanted to do. If you leave with Chiller, that's fine. I was more concerned with where you guys were planning on crashing more than anything.

I don't think you guys will have any trouble finding the supplies you're looking for. Let me know if something is really off the wall (no white phosphorus AVM's or anything).

It seems like you're taking the leadership role (which is quite natural IC, btw), so I suggest you spend some time with the team delegating activities and getting a plan together. I know this just started, but it will keep the adventure moving along.

Everyone
We seem to have lost Josie somewhere along the way, which I suspected would happen to one player or another as RL cuts in. I would like to propose replacing him with an NPC, which can be tailored to what you guys think you need. Please vote for one of the following:

Choice A - Combat oriented PC
Choice B - Hacker
Choice C - Magical character
Choice D - Nobody. We don't need anyone else, so bring it on!

Obviously we already have these categories covered, but with 6 characters there will be some overlap. This NPC will take (reasonable) orders from the group and will cooperate within the bounds of GM discretion (mua ha ha...oh wait).

A-in will look for the LL node where it was the night before, but if it has changed locations he'll go through hsi usual channels to find out where it went (whatever those happen to be).

As for new PC... ex-MCT Drone Rigger/Research Scientist is probably too much to ask for?

A-In
Given your knowledge of VR clubs, I have no doubt you can find the LL again.

Well, I'm back.

As for a new NPC addition, given the situation we'd be in, I think a hacker-type with at least decent combat skills is what we could use the most. We really want to avoid combat if possible, so we probably don't need another havy combat character. And the magical security means that we'd need to be careful about slinging too much magic around. Another hacker could help bypass one part of security while A-In hacks away at another.

Of course, if we just said no to an extra person, we could split the loot 5 ways instead of 6.

BUMP.
We all still alive?

I'm still alive, but I wasn't sure if more than three of my players were. I was kinda waiting for more people to check in. The waiting just turned into more waiting though.

Well, we're as likely to mess it up with five runners as three. Possibly slightly less likely with three, actually.

But mroe people means more meat shields when fighting does start.