Action, action, action!! Time to wake this game up... But don't forget why its called Shadowrun.

Oh yea... And everyone drop and init and declare your actions.

I will try to keep that in mind.


Jazz's Initiative is 13.

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Thanee

I feel like we're still just a little too early for init, but here it is just in case.

Initiative (10d6.hits(5)=3) -> Init 13

10

Thanee: Make a memory test [Logic(4) + Willpower(2)] and an Intuition(4) + Lone Star Procedures(3) test.

Memory 2 hits (rolled one die too many there, just remove last die)
Lone Star Procedures 2 hits

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Thanee

@Thanee
I assume that you would prefer simply doing a soft reset of the com rather than a hard reboot, since I view that as not needed for what you are trying to do (and take a number of combat turns to recover from). I also itemized the steps as I see them to prepare for an Access ID change. I assume Jazz would know those steps and perform them without issue.

Just to be clear, the fly-spy tracking her is down the block and across the street. Half the physical distance to the parking lot camera and in visual range of Jazz.

Yep.

My thinking goes along those lines... they cannot precisely pinpoint the wireless device they are tracking, since that is impossible (only to about 50m, which is quite a lot in a city environment).

The only "giveaway" could be that Jazz was in VR-slumber for a while (really need to remember that, as it sometimes is a bit inconvenient ).

So, as far as I see, they cannot yet know who is corresponding with the Matrix persona. If someone in the vincinity now breaks off and speeds away after receiving the message (worth a try), they might follow that one instead.

If not, Jazz will have to drive off for now. She is quite confident in her driving skills and visual identification of her should not really be possible with the helmet on. She can go into the Matrix from anywhere, so that shouldn't be much of a problem at least. Though there isn't a whole lot she can do from the Matrix, anyways (at least I wouldn't know what... other than attack the other side there, and cybercombat is hardly her forte).

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Thanee

I don't want you to feel like you were cheated, so I'll provide you things Jazz could work out in time:

If you start with Track [BBB. pg227] and add some physical surveillance/recon and the fact that the camera has a limited PAN range it would not be hard to locate you out in the open. Had you been inside a car or van, they would have had to triangulate your position.

Remember: If you can see an active or passive node, you can determine its Access ID. Like when you were attempting to determine the Access ID of a traffic light.

So at this point in time, she should be confident that she has been identified (The helmet does protect her from facial recognition, spoofed access ID protects her from retroactive tracking). She is currently in an A/AA security rated neighborhood with a hidden PAN. That is a double edge sword. It presents additional scrutiny (no broadcast SIN) plus the fact that passive alerts will quickly be elevated to active alerts.

Will keep that in mind in future and buy a few extra commlinks as relays.

Part of the "problem" is, that I didn't recall the information from the shadow report you reposted earlier, which was from half a year ago.

Certainly would have done things differently then... Too late now, and no big deal, though.



See it in the Matrix, you mean, or physically?



Ok, that does mean, though, that she has to leave the area completely now.

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Thanee

Yes, but as the GM I have to read back through old posts to keep it consistent.. So I have little sympathy.

I actually mean AR. If you can see AR generated by the node in question.

-RJ

I see. Since the node of her commlink doesn't generate anything (since it is hidden) in AR, that doesn't really help with gathering her Access ID, but the drone can "see", that there is nothing, which means, that something is wrong, basically.

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Thanee

Exactly! Once you accessed the camera, it had your Access ID. It then began a physical sweep. It matched your AR signature to your Access ID. You dropped out of AR and re-spoofed your access ID, but it already has physical video and location of you and your bike. It does not know your current Access ID because you are currently running with your com in Stealth mode. It (or a nearby hacker) can begin to use scan [ BBB.225] to find your hidden node. If it/they do, then your new Access ID will be known. It could also be cross referenced to a sniff of PAN communications (slaved drones) and various other matrix based communications (TeamNet, texts, voice calls).

You cannot scan for a specific hidden node, though (unless you already know its ID, in which case you still need 4 hits on the Scan); only for hidden nodes in the general area, which takes a long time to do (threshold of 15+ according to the BBB; and there have been several hidden nodes around earlier, so that should make things a bit more difficult as well).

So, that shouldn't really be much of a problem.



Jazz's comm is not hooked up to the TeamNet (or her drones), anymore, though. That's why she rebooted it.
She will get back to that later from another angle, if possible, but for now her comm is completely detached.

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Thanee

Correct, I mis-typed. The agent/drone/hacker would then need to catalog all the wireless signals of all hidden nodes to even hope to track you down.

I need clarification: I thought your drones were slaved. If so, they will only communicate with a known Access ID in PAN range. If not, they are still broadcasting traffic destined for your old Access ID. Let me know so that I can edit my post.

As I wrote in the IC post... the drones are ordered to save their feed and just stay where they are (sitting around wherever Jazz had positioned them earlier... just two points somewhere on a building or in a tree or whatnot, from where they have a good view on the area from two different angles).

They are not connected or broadcasting at all right now.

To get back to them, Jazz will need to access them from PAN range, of course. That makes sense.

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Thanee

Ok, extra posting on my part deleted. I need a pair of riding checks from Jazz.

3 hits and 2 hits.

Not really impressive, considering her dice pool should average on 4+ hits.

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Thanee

Bad Luck rains down on Jazz. Lone Star cop's driving roll: [2,2,5,5,6,5,4,3] 4 hits

Wasn't that one clear, either way.

Frankly, Jazz couldn't really do much to help you there, anyways. The distraction caused is probably more useful.



BTW, Jazz informed the team, that she would have to cut communications for a while... that was a few seconds ago.

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Thanee

I don't have a clear picture of where we are and what to expect at this point. Maybe a more detailed description of the area we're in would be in order. I have no idea what strategy to use.. But it might be ok to wait until the actual time the delivery is taking place though.

The team is in the middle of Auburn. Downtown, metropolitan area with a security rating of "A". From Rex's perspective, THIS POST should set the scene. A little over 4 minutes has passed between then and now. Rex's physical location has passed, there are 8 minutes until the pickup is scheduled and one of the three of the team's groups appear to have been compromised.

If there are additional details that would help, simply ask.

Thanks that helped.

And since you ask, I might have one more detail I'd like to know. Are we going to be ambushed? Are there snipers on rooftops?

@Gobogen: Your team's mage did a quick recon. He did not notice anything. The big question is did he fail his perception tests?

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@Kvasac: Do you want to jump into the roto-drone and use your perception or have the drone perform the search?

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@Thanee: One more riding check and an edge check (just roll your edge in dice). We'll use the fast resolution to see if (a) she lucks into a clear route to the interstate and (b) out-rides her pursuer.

That's much better...

Pilot 5 hits
Edge 1 hit

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Thanee

Drone jump
3 hits

Lone Star riding check: [6,2,1,2,4,5,2,5] 3 hits

Not sure, if I should make another pilot check now or not, so I'm waiting for your request for now.

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Thanee

Two Qs:
Can we spot te courrier?
What type of vehicle is pick up car (in other words, does it have more steel than my van)?

No. You have pretty much three choices as you head for Z rating neighborhood: Central Puyallup Barrens, Hell's Kitchen or Carbando.

At this point, only the vehicle is visible.
The vehicle is a panel van. Make a Automotive Mechanic(2) + Logic(4) test.


@All
Ok, Jazz is busy getting clear. Anon's player is having RL issues and is withdrawing. That leaves Jake and Rex to make the call for a plan to deal with the van or cut-n-run. Let me know and I'll post up.

1 hit

I rolled a d3, since Jazz doesn't know the area all too well... heading towards Carbando (whatever that is ).

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Thanee

Ok. One hit for Jake on the van. Not enough to discern if its armored. Jazz is headed deep for Z ratings to get rid of the Star. Player wise, I have Kvasac and Gobogen. So, line me out a plan here in OOC. We'll throw down a few rolls and I'll fast-forward a bit to get some energy back into the game. You have 2 NPCs (former players) to direct in that plan as well.

Cool?

I was thinking of Rex stealing a car (violently throwing the driver out) and sending it at the other van once it parks. Rex (or someone else) rushes to grab the package while my drones lay some waste around and I pick him up on the fly and make a dash for some more violent areas where no one would dare to follow.
Meanwhile we could use some magical support fom exPC. I'm not really sure what his capabilities are.

Also RJ, can you prep for my re-insertion in Sigma Quadrant? In, lets say, 2 or 3 weeks, once I'm back from vacation?

Well, I'm around. Just can't do much to help in the current situation, I'm afraid.

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Thanee

Sorry for being unavailable for a while.

Is Rex strong enough to hurl a car around!?

A Yugo weighs 802kg. A VW bug and Toyota Prius weigh more. A Honda Spirit would probably weigh in somewhere in the neighborhood of 500-600. A 9 STR gives you 135kg off the cuff....

I'm thinking no car tossing. Rolling a small one over by himself would be a different question. A strength check would be required, but plausible.

He's actually a pretty weak mage. Mid-level magic rating; Stun bolt, invisibility, levitate, physical mask.

I was thinking of driving it and bailing out at last possible moment (possibly jammin some kind of club on gas and under the wheel to give it full speed)

Ok. Sounds like Rex carjacks a car, rams the courier with it. The trio then try snatch and grab?

Unless there is an alternate or update, I'll post up to that effect on Sunday.

Ok. I missed the Sunday post. So here we go. I'm gonna fast forward this game since its in bad shape and we've had such player turn over.

Rex: Intimidate(2) + Physical(2) + Charisma(3) + Physically Imposing(3) + Weapon(2) + In Danger(2) = [3,2,4,1,6,2,4,2,6,2,6,1,6,2] = 4 hits

Driver: Willpower(2) [6,6]

Rex Driving(-1) + Reaction(4) + Handling(-1) = [3,2] 0 hits
- Edge [1,2] = 0 hits

Rex: Body(9) + Armor Jacket(6) + Dermal(1) = [2,1,2,6,3,3,2,5,4,4,5,1,2,5,2,2] = 4 hits

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At this point I need an init from everyone but Jazz. From Jazz I need a driving test. (I'm gonna start tracking the future for her)
Any character without a player will receive a GM rolled init and more than their fair share of the incoming fire.

Great roll for the Orc.

Not so great roll for Rex, though.

Ok, 2 dice total isn't exactly much, of course...

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Thanee

initiative 11

The plan (for now)
one of dobermanns and roto-drone fires on the guy with package and tries to take him down ASAP (using edge if needed). The other doggie will do some supressive, support fire. As soon as he is down, whoever is nearest to the downed agent grabs the package and makes the run for the van while drones provide cover fire. We pack up and ride into the sunset

hopefully, roto will superrior position plus those few seconds to achieve better aim.

Gobogen was posted in on 7/23, but hasn't posted since even though I responded to him..... Should I give it a few days to see if he got bored with the game?

I guess so... otherwise kvasac is kinda alone there in the fray, with Jazz being on her sightseeing tour through Puyallup.

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Thanee

noobs luck...

He's seems to have a growing number of fodder NPC's with him. If nothing else, they should make great meat shields.

We should rename the game Jake and his Happy Fodder Friends.
Talking about games I am starting something new on Anet.