Okay... moving us toward the apartment. Sorry about any trampled toes. But we're not exactly sprinting so I thought I'd goose us.

JR - need any rolls? I'm sorta just going freeform. Let me know.

Freeform is fine

Okay, I'm back, still decking though, so it seems

Good luck with the sprint job, I will be following your progress in spirit once this damned data wall cracks...

As Cadence parks, I will make a perception test for anyone else that seems like thay might be staking out the building. Especially using thermo to look for heat sources inside parked cars.

JR, can we get some GM feed? Like (assume we all check the place out in our various ways) Just so we can move along. I sense a stall coming.

I've been monitoring and you guys are doing great so, i decided not to interfere.

On the perception roll: The streets are busy with traffic, both vehicle and pedestrian (Seattle never sleeps anymore it seems). That bearing in mind, you dont see anything out of the ordinary.


The building inside will be barely (dimly) lite with many bulbs burnt out or flickering its last minutes of life. The hallways arent completely filthy, but papers, wrappers and packaging is strewn about the place.

The alleyway is dark and ominous with broken bottles, a multitude of other garbage litters the entirety. The large trash bin, is over filled and reeks. [please roll a composure roll if you intend to be back there WIL+CHA] Yes, it smells that bad.


I hadnt interfered as you guys were doing a great job and my away time from the internet (school during day) might have held things up. [this is why i'm posting this info on the setting here and not in the IC post as it might delay you....run with it you're all doing great, and if need be i'll pull in the reins]

Well I'm off to Dragon*Con for the weekend. Perhaps that will be enough of a time delay to have that ward finished, and be able to get moving with the group when we get back....

Let me be clear, I wasn't calling you out JR. I was just saying for us to bring this this initial investigation (at more than just the apartment) to a successful close we're gonna need GM info. Tidbits, stuff we can take back to the rest of the team and get moving on our first job. In fairness to the other players we need to get this wrapped up and hopefully a little productive.

I second ES. Even something as simple as "You find nothing new at the apartment" can let us RP the looksee, then move to the Chinese spot.

I didnt take it as being called out. To tell the truth, it didnt cross my mind until you mentioned it here. There is nothing new to glean from a search.

Any problem getting something personal for a potential ritual link?

I was actually thinking Janie, would do a walk through, showing everything in the place, and with the lack of my "hey you found this, on a search/perception roll" It would roll along to the obvious conclusion...no new clues.

Blitz, plenty of stuff around for that.

Old clothes, Dirty dishes, spoons, forks in sink, I'm sure if you dig into the over flowing trash can you might find a snot rag.....plenty of potential stuff.

no brush, but a can of hair gel. Opened you see where his fingers have dug into it.

Ankle, how much longer in game time is your character going to be out of action? We might need to crash the Chinese place's network to find out when and how BiteSIZED ordered.

it's till like 3 in the morning.

ES Sparky you mentioned a matrix search? roll them bones.

Perception check to look for anything left behind with any sentimental value, such as a photo, momento, token, that sort of thing.

Intuition: 5
Perception: 2
1: 5 ... Success
2: 3
3: 6 + 3 = 9. ... Success
4: 5 ... Success
5: 2
6: 1
7: 3

3 successes


Also, question to the group. Do we wanna full on "toss the place" a'la rop open cushions, pillows, flip desk drawers, that sort of thing?

Blitz -
OOC - GM pretty much said no more clues here.

IC - seems like anything important enough to hide that way he'd have taken with him when he left....UNLESS he didn't leave of his own volition....IF he left at all; I have a burnin' desire to check out that ultra-stinky garbage heap.

adamu, the reason I ask is I don't know how good of a ritual link the guy's hair gel will really be

ES Sparky: byteSIZED plays alot on a game called MegaKill

Blitz - I usually make straight for the shower drain. Easy and virtually always yields results. If that fails, Jack said we could probably find a snot rag in a trash can.
So yeah, I think we should try the shower and then whatever we have to to get the stuff. Heck, I'll IC it right now.

Handling this OOC per IC mention: Snake drone goes into garbage on the teams way back to the van. We gotta get our get on.

What's in the trash, JR?

Hey all, circumstances are such that I will not be able to post for 48 hours from this note. Very sorry.
Do not want to hold up 'sprint mode'. Until I get back, just put me on 'watch the door' duty, and I will go along with whatever everyone decides. If things go to shit, Jack has my sheet.

Jack - on the way to the Chinese restaurant (assuming we are still going there) - however many minutes that drive takes is how many full-matrix data search extended tests I will make. I am basically just trying to get any street info on the place - especially if it's some sort of Triad hangout or anything. Just take however many successes I can accumulate in the minutes I have.

Through the heaps and mounds of trash, you find a body there. (big surprise?)

The resturant is 15 minutes by foot and about 5 by car. It's not a local hang out for the unsavory, or so you believe.

Okay, here's that composure test you called for.



In the spirit of 'sprint posting' I am gonna IC on the strength of those two successes. If the threshhold was higher, let me know and I'll edit it.

Two was fine.


It isnt byte though.

Body of an Ork, male.

Other than being deceased he is (was) in good shape.

The Ork has on an armored jacket

back of his head is gooey, single bullet hole in the forehead.

Okay, assuming it is not the Johnson's bodyguard (or even if it is), I take good video and stills of his face, as well as a bloody tuft of hair. Go through his pockets thoroughly. Kick garbage back over the body.

At that point I'm ready to get on the road to the Chinese joint, but I have 'sprint posted' 4 of the last 5 IC posts, so I will hold off posting till others catch up.

Uh, thought of just a couple more very quick questions -
Asp is no CSI, but -
powder burns around entry wound?
body, like, bloated and maggot-infested versus pale with rigor versus warm and limp? Just a very rough idea of how long he's been dead.

If it helps -

Body is pale,but not bloated (a day or so dead)

Find a commlink, 3 sets of ID's, 2 clips to an automatic weapon in a shoulder holster...weapon not in eye sight.

No powder burns, just one bullet hole in the middle of the forehead.

It is not the J's bodyguard

commlink should have good data for us to use. My guess is the this guy, and people like him, are the reason that BiteSIZED is currently hiding.

Just wanted you to know I am still here and Flame is still putting up the ward.

I just want to say how pleased I am with ES Sparky's 'sprint post' thing. The pace has, like, trebled on this thread.

That said, SPUD, buddy, I feel your pain. As I have said before, we have absolutely no IC reason not to keep chasing down these leads. But we have every OOC reason to try to stall things for five hours or so in order that others may share the joy....

Totally inviting creative solutions....

To hide outside the back of the place -

I'd offer a bribe, maybe 50 or 100 nuyen. IF they bargain too hard I will also agree that, in addition to the 50 or 100, I will refrain from helping them incur several thousand nuyens worth of debt for the reconstructive surgeries.

I assume that the question was aimed at me right?

It was aimed at whom ever was going to offer the bribe or violence. Which is it though...50 or 100.

100 hard earned smackers. . . .emphasis on the SMACKers.

Whoops..should have read OOC before posting IC...stand by while I edit appropriately

Fixed-ed

The kid tells with a shrug...He's a lousy tipper anyways. He hasnt seen him in maybe two days maybe more. All round eyes look the same to him.

Round Eye for the Asian Guy? *cracks up*

Oi Oi! Can I hit him now, huh, can I? *knuckles crack and lips are licked eagerly*

Clarify please, the last time he was in was two days ago approx?

Hey - see if there's a name to go on. Something more than byteSIZED.

Byte isnt asian

Im so tempted to turn to Chopper and say "Fesik, Tear his arms out."

No no....Jack...nevermind. He called him a round eye...you ever see the Round Eye for the Asian Guy episode of Drawn Together?

No, I havent seen to many episodes of drawn together