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Redjack

Aug 2 2008, 12:47 AM

QUOTE (Dantic @ Jun 29 2008, 03:40 PM)

Max isn't a pretty sight, most of the time. He has nightmares that cause him to fear going to sleep, so he is normally fatigued. He almost constantly displays bags under his eyes, with dark circles. He has a rather fair complexion with brown hair, and gray eyes. He usually has some stubbly growth, as he does not shave regularly, nor do much of anything else regularly. His clothing always looks rumpled, ironically that "sleeped in look" comes from constant twitching, and nervousness from his Long Haul addiction, in order to stay awake.

Found it!

Dantic

Aug 2 2008, 12:57 AM

Maxwell Stark description: He is usually unkempt in apperance, his clothes wrinkled and often covered with stains, particularly coffee. He is about six foot tall, though he slouches a lot, so it's hard to say exactly. He has medium brown hair, with a few strands of gray peppered in. He shaves infrequently, so often has three or four days of stubble. His eyes are hazle, almost grey, and he has bags under his eyes with perpetual dark circles. he isn't in very good shape, due to his lifestyle, though not fat, he does have a slight pot belly. He is in his mid to late thirties, but is often though to be older to to his haggard apperance.

Edit: Bah, not fair, you cut-n-pasting while I'm typing.

Redjack

Aug 2 2008, 02:38 PM

Even worse... I just clicked the "QuotePost" button...

Tarantula

Aug 4 2008, 03:31 AM

Yeah, sorry about that guys. I also just moved on saturday to an apartment, and am still working on getting internet and such set up there. There is one wireless here that I can kind of connect to at night usually, but I'm thinking to just pick up a high gain antenna to hold me over till I get connected over here.

Looking forward to trying to play with you on friday.

Backgammon

Aug 6 2008, 10:42 PM

So everyone still good for Friday? I'm gonna PM quentra, hopefully he'll be able to make it as well. As an added bonus, we should have Scope back amongst us - fragged and reborn under a new alias

So no Sally (who's cause of disapearance is now officially that she left to pursue personnal matters in Asia and left the company in Sean's hands), but a whole new character. Yay!

Scope_47

Aug 6 2008, 11:19 PM

Just no making fun of my chain-smoker voice +winks+

I suppose I should actually Download Skype and make sure it works huh, LOL.

@Backgammon
Should I introduce/describe my character here for simplicity's sake, or wait until in-game?

- Scope

Backgammon

Aug 6 2008, 11:35 PM

Er... describe physically I guess, to make things simpler. But they won't know you (personality wise) before you jump in the game in this case.

Redjack

Aug 6 2008, 11:49 PM

Check. Ready to go.

Dantic

Aug 7 2008, 01:56 AM

My parents may be stopping by, Fri afternoon, but should be gone before start of game time, will try and let you know if I will be running late.

Scope_47

Aug 8 2008, 08:07 AM

What time are we playing today (Friday)?

Backgammon

Aug 8 2008, 12:25 PM

8pm EST. Log on to openRPG first and then I conf call everyone with Skype.

openRPG is under Veav I (or is that II.. whatever, there is only ever one Veav anyway), room is New-York Noir, password backgammon

Tarantula

Aug 8 2008, 03:55 PM

I'll see what I can do to get connected. No internet of my own until next saturday at the apartment, so we'll see if luck favors me for finding an unsecured wireless.

Redjack

Aug 8 2008, 09:45 PM

Yikes! Good luck!

Scope_47

Aug 9 2008, 04:03 AM

That was a fun game

Thanks for letting me join back in guys - I'm looking forward to the next session, though an army of gangers seems like a not-so-happy situation.

- Scope

Tarantula

Aug 11 2008, 06:55 PM

Yes it was. I'm looking forward too, especially to having a stable non-robotic internet connection for it

Backgammon

Aug 12 2008, 01:23 AM

Can you guys confirm the topology of your commlinks/nodes setup?

Drones are Salved to Jessica's commlink. How are the rest of your commlinks setup? Loose affiliation or something else? It's going to be more and more important, so I suggest giving some thought to pros and cons of the various setups

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I had given it some thought, and decided Strong Encryption can only be used on static objects, such as files. It cannot be used as broadcastin encryption or node encryption. Then I read the entry, and the book agreed with me

"Strong Encryption cannot be used on signals". I'm also going to say you can't use it on Nodes either.

Scope_47

Aug 12 2008, 02:44 AM

Alright, I put all the info on my network topography I could think of below.

[ Spoiler ]

Just as an aside - I completely agree with Backgammon on his house ruling against strong encrypted nodes, my thoughts on the strong encryption of nodes as presented in Unwired is that it was tacked on as an afterthought by the designers when they realized that the way the rules nearly force cyberware to be wireless and open to hacking, so they added strong encryption of nodes so that hackers didn't as a rule destroy street sams. Since we don't really have any PC street sams, that point is moot, so it makes complete sense to dissallow strong encryption of nodes (which honestly really make non-bunker hackers superfluous - something that seems the anti-thesis of what SR4 is about)

Backgammon

Aug 12 2008, 10:29 PM

For the others, here's what I'm assuming that, between each other's commlinks, you do not have anything special going. Each commlink is independant and isolated. No one can hack one of them and be king of the others as well.

Tarantula

Aug 13 2008, 04:29 PM

Well, when within range, Jason's commlink will be slaved to Jessica's.

Tarantula

Aug 18 2008, 03:50 PM

When's the next game? I got my internet all hooked up and happy and good to go now, so I can't wait to get playing again!

Backgammon

Aug 18 2008, 05:17 PM

This Friday would be perfect for me

Tarantula

Aug 18 2008, 05:18 PM

Works for me too.

Redjack

Aug 18 2008, 05:42 PM

QUOTE (Backgammon @ Aug 12 2008, 04:29 PM)

For the others, here's what I'm assuming that, between each other's commlinks, you do not have anything special going. Each commlink is independant and isolated. No one can hack one of them and be king of the others as well.

One special point of note: If a com on a 'Team Net' is compromised, then 'Team Net' is compromised.

QUOTE (Backgammon @ Aug 18 2008, 11:17 AM)

This Friday would be perfect for me

Good for me.

Backgammon

Aug 18 2008, 10:28 PM

Ah, I know you guys were talking about forming a Tac Net, but did you? You each need a copy of the software, else you must all slave your commlinks to Jessica's (which would put a strain on her subscription limit). So that would change the topology to "everyone slaved" rather than loose net.

But if you do each get tacsoft and make a loose net, then if one person gets hacked, then effectively the hacker knows everything you know, as if he was a member of the tac net. But he still cannot, say, turn off someone's commlink from someone else's.

Redjack

Aug 18 2008, 10:36 PM

I was talking about TeamNetâ„¢. That undefined fluff piece of software that does a 2072 version of LiveMeeting... Allows team members to talk, chat and share video feeds across a PAN. I'll have to look up TacNet. Not sure what that is (UnWired I am sure though)

Scope_47

Aug 19 2008, 12:46 AM

I should be good for friday unless something changes.

As for the tac-net, as far as I know the tacnet just has me, Tarantula, and all my drones+vehicle on it at the moment. Its just a rating 1, but the primary benefit is that it keeps Jessica apprised of what are her drones are doing - so she can better function as a C&C sending out orders to their 'dog-brains'.

- Scope

Tarantula

Aug 19 2008, 02:37 PM

I just remembered, I have a concert on friday. I won't be able to play that night

I hate when I do that.

Redjack

Aug 19 2008, 06:01 PM

You are now shape changed (Quickened) into a frog.

Tarantula

Aug 19 2008, 06:34 PM

I just was looking forward to playing with the good internet and all that so bad!

Backgammon

Aug 19 2008, 09:03 PM

Hmm, do you object if we play anyway and I NPC-bot you along?

Tarantula

Aug 19 2008, 09:30 PM

I'd like to be there for the fight, but I'll survive if I can't be. I know you guys are itching to play (like me). Just as long as I don't show back up with "Jason died. Whoops."

Redjack

Aug 19 2008, 09:38 PM

Nah.... This is Shadowrun... Jason burned an edge and is in intensive care!!

Backgammon

Aug 20 2008, 12:24 AM

I would prefer if you were there too, but next week I think someone said they couldn't, and in two weeks it's a whole new set of problems, etc. So who knows when we'd play next. But don't worry, NPC-bots do not die. Unless shot by a team mate. But that won't happen, right

You'll just be providing counterspelling and will summon spirits/use spells to the best of the GM's ability.

Backgammon

Aug 22 2008, 02:17 PM

Sent out PMs to Max and Aurilus to confirm for tonight. If Max does not show, we will have to cancel tonight I think, too many missing key players. Aurilius would be a very nice plus, but not essential at this point.

Redjack

Aug 22 2008, 02:58 PM

I totally agree. Arilus has missed several games so he has moved to second tier

(hint, hint... show up to games to regain tier #1

)
Max has been very consistent and worked to schedule games ahead. On a note, it is Max who has the conflict next Friday.

Scope_47

Aug 22 2008, 03:14 PM

Hi guys,

I should still be able to make it for the game tonight, but my car quit on me yesterday - so let me know as soon as possible if we are playing, since if we aren't then I'm going to see if I can get my brother in law to come with his truck after work to tow my car to his shop in Georgia. Otherwise, I'll have him wait until tomorrow to do it.

- Scope

Backgammon

Aug 22 2008, 05:04 PM

It usually turns out that we actually wait till like 8:30pm before calling it quits, unless you want to give me a deadline (like 4pm EST) and if at that point Max hasn't confirmed we'll cancel.

Backgammon

Aug 22 2008, 10:38 PM

Max just confirmed, we're good to go tonight.

Dantic

Aug 22 2008, 10:39 PM

QUOTE (Backgammon @ Aug 22 2008, 09:17 AM)

Sent out PMs to Max and Aurilus to confirm for tonight. If Max does not show, we will have to cancel tonight I think, too many missing key players. Aurilius would be a very nice plus, but not essential at this point.

I'll be there, baring loss of conection due to weather.

Backgammon

Aug 23 2008, 12:23 AM

Ok so this week was The Game That Was Not Meant To Be. We ended up not playing due to a emergency on Scope's end (so there you go lucky Jason

). Next week Max is a no-go, so we're aiming for the 5th of September. We will play if missing only 1 person at that time.

In the meantime, I'll be handing out Karma Kookies for anyone that wants to write short stories or any such in-game extra material

Tarantula

Aug 26 2008, 04:20 PM

Should work for me.

Redjack

Sep 2 2008, 06:04 PM

I will probably be late. I have a 6:30pm CST till ?? Cub Scout meet and greet. I'll join as soon as I can.

Backgammon

Sep 2 2008, 09:37 PM

That's not so bad. As long as the Cub Scouts don't meet for several hours... right?

Redjack

Sep 2 2008, 10:42 PM

Honestly, I've not been to one of these things before... I'm not sure what to expect... I wasn't expecting this, but they added this to the calendar just this month...

Backgammon

Sep 3 2008, 12:53 AM

Hmmm... you're kinda essential though, you're the only one physically next to London and the shit is about to hit the fan. You're going to have to make tactical decisions and roll combat, stuff that would really really suck if I did them for you.

I wouldn't mind delaying Friday's game an hour or so, but then what if the meeting is much longer than that? Delaying till up to 9pm EST (8 CST) is still reasonnable, giving you 1h30 for the meeting and to get back and set up. Is there anyway for you to find out how long the meeting is gonna be?

Otherwise, can I get a sound off on everyone else if Thursday 7pm-9m EST would work?

If all else fails, I can PM you with some details of the scene to come, and you can at least give me your base plan. I can then play you until you get back, but at least the general decisions will be yours.

Redjack

Sep 3 2008, 02:05 AM

I will follow up about Friday with the Pack Leader. Thursday is perfect for me though. Let me know.

Tarantula

Sep 3 2008, 05:59 PM

Thursday (err, well, tomorrow) is good for me.

Backgammon

Sep 4 2008, 12:59 PM

Trying to PM Scope and Max for tonight...

Any news on Friday's meeting length?

Redjack

Sep 4 2008, 04:53 PM

Word is the meeting will be over by 7:30cst, which should place me at home by 8:00 cst/9:00est.

Backgammon

Sep 4 2008, 05:40 PM

Ok, that's good then. I haven't gotten word back from the others for tonight. If they both confirm for tonight, I say we play today and Friday.

Otherwise, Friday will be on from 9EST+, which is ok. Just check this thread to see if we're on for tonight or not.