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Game On!!

Redjack i thought of a place for all the runners to meet i thought my character would know of atleast a few places around crime mall that would suffice for meeting up i found a place called forbidden city in seattle WA i would assume that it still exists i hope anyways if it doesnt can you recommend a place. i tried to find a few places around where we met so no one had to ride or drive to far to get there.

Satyr
I'll roll with Forbidden City still being in existence.

Everyone

Both teams have completed the first objective successfully, negotiating a price with their Johnson. Please take 1 Karma for this success. Additional role-playing Karma may appear to you in a PM infrequently on an individual basis as well.

Redjack

I'm going to summon and bind a couple of elementals. One Air Force 3 and one Water Force 3. The total time it'll take to summon and bind will be about six hours so I don't want to start doing that until we figure out when we're going to meet, which we won't know until our transport people figure out how long it'll take to travel wherever the hell it is we're going.

Since I've got a map co-ordinate can I just ask my GPS commlink doohickey to tell me how many miles away it is in a straight line or do I need to do computer search stuff to accomplish that? I've never even worked GPS in real life so I don't know if I'm asking a stupid question or not but it will help me get an idea how long it'll take to get where we're going.

Knowledge Skill Seattle Smuggling Routes + Logic 3 successes

You can link to this roll at
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=944754

Maybe that'll help give me an estimate for how long it'll take us to get where we're going via van and foot.

Sorry all RL kicked me in the butt again and i had to work extra shifts at work to cover my arse.

its all good bro, Rl can really take up a lot of time

as far as my playing a forum game this is my first shadowrun game so if you see me make any errors character wise that redjack doesnt see or if you guys see me make any character flaws please let me know.

I wouldn't have noticed, if you hadn't said that now.

Bye
Thanee

well thank you thanee, i play SR with others with PnP but its kind of diffrent when i have no facial expressions to look at, also converstions take a whole lot longer to do.

That's true. On the plus side you have more time to think about a good response. And you can always look at the older posts (kinda like an archive) to check back about some specifics.

Bye
Thanee

yeah i am starting to like the whole archive thing, i also need to start thinking about my responses more because i make minor mistakes like names and small details about what im doing.

At the same time though i have to pace myself so not to get ahead of others and give them time to repost and keep up time with Redjack and the other players.

You can also edit something later (I often do that, too, i.e. when I noticed the location was wrong in the headline since I just copied it from the post before, like I did earlier ).

Bye
Thanee

yeah i had to do that a few times actually /shrug. i am getting the feel for it though and i am really enjoying playing this way it will be nice to start more runs as i get better also when im in the UK i wont be able to find players for PnP play so this will probably be my only interaction with SR for the next two or more years.

Hey guys, maybe I'm being ignorant, but instead of renting a vehicle why don't we just steal one? I mean that way if we need to ditch it we're not out the money and it shouldn't lead back to us. We're only going to have the vehicle for a day so if we pick the right vehicle the theft might not even be noticed before we're back, and all we'd have to do is dump the tracing signal on the car and we're set.

If I'm missing something obvious please let me know but we are criminals after all, we ought to act like it.

being in the state of mind in the 21st century now and a ganger in 2060 something no thats something that would be plausible but being shadowrunners like we are the less attention the better we stay hidden. if we were to steal a vehicle then what are the chances of it being reported and if it is, who's is it are they important do they have something rigged in it more then just a simple tracking device, im not trying to sound mean or harp trust me im just trying to set a mind set for the fact that if we steal something rather then rent from a fixer or have a face if we had one talk our way into renting one then we are left with a clean slat wether or not we get caught or have to ditch the rented ride. besides we are guaranteed that the ride we rent from a dealership or a fixer is clean and we wont be stopped for no signal on the car or suspicion of it looking like a ride that was stolen earlier that night. am i making any sense?

You act like you have experience with a GM who would use that type of stuff against you?

btw: How's that new identity and face working out for you Sa- Grig...?

yeah you could say that i have had a great GM who is teaching me how to playa great Shadowrun game.

Sa-Grigg is doing great he loves his new pad, wishes his horns were a little diffrent but nothing he cant get used to.

Team #1:
I don't see any actions yet that would require a GM response. It still appears that Greer, Rex and Whisper are in the meeting room and Jake is in the van cleaning up and waiting for the team. Let me know if you need anything from me.

Ready to rock and roll as soon as team gets to van (but not before they wash their hands )

Hehe. My character gave a try to the "hand-cleaning" thing. I'm not sure he'll pass the test but we'll see if he can get into the van.

Satyr, don't worry about contradicting me I'm inviting the discussion so taking an opposing view doesn't bother me in the least. I won't take it personally or feel your trying to be negative or anything. I'm feeling out what possibilities there are rather than stating a desired course of action.

Primarily I'm thinking that if we were to boost like a Hertz rent-a-van from its parking lot we could be reasonably assured of stripping it of any tracking signals. The corp couldn't afford to outfit every single vehicle with a bunch of tracking tech or any of that, it would be more expensive than just paying an insurance company. We could use a basic radio signal scanner or at worst be looking at a time delayed burst signal transmitter.

Now I admit stealing a vehicle comes with all sorts of additional intanglements. We'd have to be really careful to leave no forensic evidence in the vehicle which would be almost impossible, or we'd have to reduce the vehicle to vulcanized ashes. We might have additional people looking for us, although I'm not terrified by Hertz Rentals, and have an increased security risk. However, if we rent a ride from a fixer he's more likely to be able to find us if we trash his ride, since he knows who we are and is likely to have better street connections. Unless you really trust your fixer we'll have to be careful as to what kinds of forensic evidence we leave in the vehicle, and we can't just trash it when we're done.

Both options have pros and cons, I thought I'd just add another option to the table.

thats cool man i wasn't trying to be negative or stand offish i was just trying to explain the mind set of how my runner thinks i guess, he used to be part of the wildcats so he isn't used to boosting car and grand theft auto with such. Zion just wants a guaranteed ride that would be clean with no attachments if we are stopped by lonestar or any other security agency.

your right too that both have pro's and con's, either one would be a great idea.
im a pretty easy going guy in RL, i just want to chill and have a great gaming experience.

Is that 'White Knight' a Humanis type thing?

Yeah, that, and a light machine gun.

Bye
Thanee

No prob Satyr.

I'll tell you though, my mage doesn't have any of the skills necessary to steal a car, so I won't be the one doing it. I have a control thoughts spell which might help moving an attendant around but other than that I'm useless for grand theft auto.

I'll leave it up to the rest of the group, probably just renting a ride is easier and it'll help move the story along provided our GM makes it so.

I haven't been following P2... are you guys gonna boost a car from the Mall Monsters?! Are you nuts? ;P

probly somewhere else i'm thinking. Also probly something in the manner of off road capable.....we're 4 wheelin' YEE HAW!!....them crazy duke boys lol

Hey, we're at the crime mall, there is a parking lot full of vehicles. None of the people here are likely to call the cops since when Lone Star came to take a police report the reporting party would likely be arrested. Hhmmmmmmmm. . .?

Who's our rigger? I bet he has the necessary skills. DJ, why don't you go ahead and steal a cool van, while I act as the . . . .look out.

The Mall Monsters are policing the parking lot. IMO they're worse than the police, if you get away from the police, they'll be perfectly happy to just wait until you screw up again. The Mall Monsters might not be so easy going.

And DJ will never be allowed back into the Crime Mall.....not a good career choice. However if said vehicle is in the lot we can follow them out of the Mall and the protection of the Mall Monsters....fair game at that point.

Edited my last post a bit to give the story more move-on..

*Goes to look*

Geessh, you people take all the fun out of being criminals.

Okay so stealing from the Monsters might not be such a great idea. Moving along.

Does anyone know where any Mafia don's park their limos???

My bad, it was the Lifters... but whatever. The 'protection' gang.

The Monsters are below.. null sheen.

I know this is a little off topic, but reading it... the gang turf battles, the armed citizens... I got a feel for 2070 Puyallups.... New Orleans 2007

Haalllooo *echoing*

Has the bacteria killed all else but me in the Kilroy thread? Wow, something like that happening would definitally give me a bacteria paranoia, too.

Well...my GF pointed gun at my head and forced me to spend a day with her...sorry..

It's ok. I forgive you.

Yeah, kvasac, I'm a little behind you guys in the timeline. About 5 minutes.

Summoning a Force 3 Water elemental with Guard Power

Summoning + Magic Roll: 8 dice = 4 successes

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http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=969174

Spirit's Opposed test: 3 dice = 1 success

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http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=969177

Drain = 2 x Spirit's hits = DV2
Willpower + Logic: 9 dice = 2 successes no drain

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http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=969180

3 net hits = 3 services

Binding

Binding + Magic: 8 dice =3 successes

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http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=969187

Spirits Opposes test: Force x 2 6 dice =2 successes

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http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=969192

Spirit bound no additional services owed total services 3

Binding Drain = 2 x Spirit's hits = DV4
Willpower + Logic 9 dice = 3 successes

You can link to this roll at
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=969199

All this means I've bound 1 elemental who owes me three services and suffered 1 box of stun damage. The summoning required only a complex action while the binding ritual took 3 hours so my character is occupied until approximately 01:00:00

Anyone on T1 has anything to add to 'da plan'?