Back from GenCon but had to put my 13 1/2 year old Rott (got him when he was a puppy) to sleep. Work will be hell catching up. Try to have everything caught up by the week end.

Rex: Con [5,1] = 1 hit + Glitch
Guard: Resist Con [6,1] = 1 hit + Glitch

Guards Init( 8 ) [1,6,3,3,5,2,1,4] 2 hits = 10(1)
Dobermans Init( 7 ) [6,1,1,4,5,6,6,3] 4 hits = 11(3)
Rotodrone init(6) [3,6,3,1,3,1] 1hit = 7(3)

Rex: Glitch on Con equates to surprise on Jake's arrival
Rex: Init( 8 ) [4,1,5,6,5,1,6,5] 5 hits = 13(1)

Doberman Pilot(3) + Targeting(3) [5,1,6,1,5,6] 4 hits.
Damage: FN FAR 6P + 5P (burst) + 4P (Net Hits) = DV15P AP -4
Guard resists : Body(4) + Ballistic(10) [5,1,5,4,2,2,2,1,1,5,6,1,2,5] 3 hits = 12x physical + knock down

Roto-drone fires [1,2,1,6,1,6] 2 hits & glitch
Guard #1 : Long [5,3,6,5,2,6,5,4] 5 hits
Guard #2 : Long [4,1,1,3,6,6,1,1] 2 hits
Guard #2 : Short [6,4,2,1,4,6,5,2] 2 hits

Rex Dodging:
[3,5,5,2,4,3] 2 hits
[3,5,1,3,3] 1 hit
[2,2,1,3] 0 hits

Damage:
5P + 5P + 3P = DV13P
5P + 5P + 1P = DV11P
5P + 3P + 2P = DV10P
Rex Resists:
[2,1,1,4,6,4,3,1,1,1,4,3,5,4,6,1,4,6,2] 4 hits
[4,3,4,1,6,4,2,2,3,5,4,3,6,4,6,1,2,1,4] 4 hits
[3,1,4,3,1,2,6,4,4,3,6,3,4,4,6,6,3,3,2] 4 hits
Rex Spends Edge
[1,3,2,5,3,4,1,5,1,2,3,5,5,2,5] = 5 hits

Damage taken: 9P + 7P + 1P

Dobermans
7d6.hits(5) → [5,1,5,6,6,3,5] = (5)
7d6.hits(5) → [4,3,2,5,1,1,4] = (1)

Guards react
3d6.hits(5) → [6,1,1] = (1)
3d6.hits(5) → [6,4,5] = (2)

Damage:
6P + 5P + 4P = 15P AP-4
Guards resist
[2,4,6,4,4,4,6,5,1,5,3,3,2,4] 4 hits = 11P

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Courier Init( [2,5,1,6,2,5,5,6] 5 hits = 13
Doberman Init(7) [2,6,1,2,2,5,6] 3 hits = 10

Guard: Composure roll [1,5,6,6,5,2] 4 hits
Attack [3,2,1,5] 1 hits

Doberman REA [6,6,6]

Doberman Attack: [2,1,2,5,1,1] 1 hit + glitch
Doberman Attack [2,5,3,3,4,4] 1 hit

Courier REA
3d6.hits(5) → [5,4,3] = (1)
3d6.hits(5) → [6,3,6] = (1)

Doberman[6,4,6,5,3,2] 3 hits
Courier REA [2] 0 hits
Damage 6P + 5P + 3P = 14P
Soak [3,3,3,2,2,6,4,3,6,3,4,4,2,6,3,5] 4 hits = 10P

Doberman[4,5,1,4,4,3] 1 hit

Glitch valley.


So the current status is...

Jake (with Anon and the package in his car) is in the Barrens.
Jazz is in the Barrens and has lost the LS officer who was in pursuit?
Spades is racing away with two KE cruisers in pursuit.
Rex is still there and bleeding to death? (or rather being treated and taken in by the security forces...)

BTW, is Rex' armor so low, that he does not convert 11 DV or 10 DV into stun?
That would make quite a difference there, as he would still be moving then...

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Thanee

Rex had 9 points of Impact. He was create pre-arsenal and was never upgraded to form-fit.
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Yea. That is pretty much the scene. If the players come back, they may convince me to save the characters, but its been a while since they posted.

Impact, ok. I was thinking Ballistic. That should be at least 10 even without ffba.

And yeah, with the players not around, that makes things a bit less of an issue...

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Thanee

Sorry I was 1/2 asleep when I wrote that. I meant ballistic. Armor Jacket [8/6] + Helmet [0/+2] +Troll Dermal [+1/+1] = 9/9
A body of 9 gave him a dp18. Why should it be at least a 10?

Was assuming a real helmet (+1/+2).

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Thanee

I edited the post to Kvasac a chance to post in. I did do an extreme fast-forward. We will role-play forward from there.

Yep.

Saving my post here...



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Thanee

Edited my post too..We can move on...

@Redjack: Aeryn is known as Jazz in these parts of Seattle.

As for Rex... Heal spell? First Aid skill? Edge?

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Thanee

Jiggity, jiggity. Fixed.

She is safe enough from the Star now. Go ahead and post up. MAtrix connection is spotty, but she can find a signal and slow. She knows she needs to get back out of Carbando soon though.

Does Jake have a R6 Medkit maybe?

You could use that + Edge to get Rex stable.

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Thanee

Either one of you guys can post in.

Ok.

Don't have time right now, but will look at it later today.

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Thanee

Ok. What's the plan? Sounds like its about time for a wrap up.

The plan-deliver the goods...

At least, I hope that a Radio Signal Scanner is accurate enough to pinpoint the sending device. Hopefully it's on the outside somewhere, so it could be destroyed without harming the package.

But other than that, I guess intercepting and altering the signal could also work, matrix-wise, but Jazz would first have to find an inconspicuous spot to stay while going into VR (or AR, if VR is not an option; even then being out of sight would be useful), as learned in the previous scene.

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Thanee

Sooo... how about Jake and Jazz drive along for a moment, so she can hand over her scanner through a window or somesuch, and then Jazz will seek cover in the vincinity (and be it the restroom of some café in the vincinity ), in order to go and hunt down the signal in VR.

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Thanee

Doesnt look like the weekly is going to make it - any new estimates on how frequently were going to get more Shadows? Its a great strip, what there is of it...

Slowly but surely we're ramping back up to speed. RL is a bitch for consistent posting sometimes.

Hmm... looks like you actually need Electronic Warfare to operate the scanner... thought it works by itself.

Of course, since he only 'said' it, Jazz doesn't know about it and cannot give directions.

Would it be possible for Jazz to hook up with the scanner from the Matrix to operate it from there?
Would that even offer any advantage over just using her own Sniffer program?
It has a higher Rating at least, and it says that it can pinpoint the sending device's location, which sounds useful.

Anyways, while waiting for an answer, Jazz is going to use her Sniffer to Intercept Wireless Signals (p.225) after Decrypting the signal (which surely will be necessary) and finding it in the first place, in order to be able to edit it. Cannot access invisiblecastle right now, so will make rolls later.

It should be no problem to run her Reality Filter in the team's commlink, right? So she will do that first, of course, to raise her Response to 6 (if she can even use her own commlink's Response to run her programs, but I think so... correct me, if otherwise).

Actions should be as follows...

1) Reality Filter
2) Scan for wireless signals, figuring out which is the one from the package
3) Decrypt the signal
4) Intercept the signal
5) Edit the signal

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Thanee

Posted a quick reply. I'll work on a longer one today.

Ok. Here are some rolls to go along with the above:

1) Assuming that no roll is necessary to run this on a friendly node.
2) Electronic Warfare + Scan + VR => 5 hits
3) Decrypt + Response + VR => 3 hits (extended; might take a few more actions)
4) Electronic Warfare + Sniffer + VR => 6 hits
5) Computer + Edit + VR => 5 hits

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Thanee

Ah. Found out something about Detect Hidden Node that I didn't know.

1) Affirmative. No rolls to use a friendly node as a launch point. +1 response.
2) 5 Hits and you know the exact location of the package you are attempting to find a hidden node on. Success.
4) Intercept comes before decrypt. Success.
3) Decrypt. Not Encrypted. Success.

I think you are mix wired and wireless interception rules.


You can absolutely catch the traffic. Your only other choice is Jam Signals. This does cause you a problem since you are remoted into Jake's com, though once the jamming starts you are g2g.... Except that you won't know where the team is.

I was going by the Intercepting Wireless Signals description on p. 225 of the original SR4 book (read that paragraph, and you know where I'm coming from).

The term 'intercept' is a bit misleading, and as it is, SR4A (just looking it up there) has renamed that into Capture Wireless Signal (p. 229).

The description in the original book is a bit more detailed, though.

On further reading, it looks like they split the original into the two actions (the Capture and the Intercept ones).

Jam Signals is not possible, because we have no jamming device, hence the idea to Edit the signal via the Matrix.
If that is not doable, we can only physically disable it (breaking the sending device with brute force).



Yeah, that much was clear from the beginning.

The question is, is there any way to block/scramble the signal without a jammer (using Matrix actions, like Edit, on the signal)?

If not. Is it possible to pinpoint the location of the signal inside the case (have a better idea where in the case it is located)?

Either way, if blocking/scrambling the signal won't work, we have to open the package, take whatever is in there out and dump the part(s) that contains the tag(s), or just squish them.


That, of course, won't get those cruisers off Jake's rear...

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Thanee

Waiting for answer (so I know how/if it is supposed to work) before I can answer Jake.

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Thanee

Especially for jamming.

It appears not. Looks like the team needs a jammer for future ops.

I would think that a comlink in hand with a scan program and the right skill check and that should be possible.

Yep, since SR4A at least, before the changes, it was doable.



So, back to that question... Can I do that remotely with Anon moving the commlink (or even my radio signal scanner), while I use my Electronic Warfare and give him instructions?

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Thanee

Actually no. I got that from the BBB:



Yes.

Not the Jamming, the Signal Editing.

Ok, gonna give Anon instructions to use the scanner then.

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Thanee

Who's happy to see me on again? I developed a sudden urge to re-read the entire ShadowRun 4th Ed. book all over again... It reminded me of Dumpshock so I thought I'd get on and say hey! I'm reading the last year of posting, I'm glad to see your game has lasted the whole while RedJack. I can't tell you how busy my summer was! I'm reading the happenings on the board to see if you kept Spades around or not, and if he'd been plugged.

With holidays, RL is pretty crazy. Posting in as I can. Bear with me.

Holidays? Oh, I suppose you mean the upcoming holidays.

And hello again, SoyKaf Adict.

We could actually need some more folks on here, I think other then Redjack, of course, only kvasac and I are currently posting (occasionally ).

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Thanee

Yeah, I do believe Spades is a wheel man and Face if I remember correctly. I'll have to scavenge my sheet from wherever it resides. I'll be happy to add my services back into the fold... namely the bill fold.

-SoyKaf

I have my character sheets in my PM box here... easy to find that way, and always there regardless from where you access the forum.

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Thanee

Good call, I'll have to remember that.

Ok, December is looking like a month where life and work will stop kicking my ass. Hoping to get back to a regular posting schedule.

Jazz had given Anon her Rating 6 Radio Signal Scanner. I think it makes more sense he uses that one, since Jazz has to give him manual instructions, anyways. The scanner is dedicated to that purpose and should be a bit more powerful, too.

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Thanee

BTW, need any roll for the scanning via Anon? What should I roll? Just Electronic Warfare + Scanner Rating - some modifier for the difficulties involved?

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Thanee

Oh hell yea. adjusted.

Secret GM roll in progress.

What happened? We're dead in the water!

I seemed to have missed finishing my post for this game in last week's posting. Sorry about that.

Driving check for Jake.

BTW, do I get the call from Spades? Not entirely sure about that.

And could you be a bit more specific about the location of the sender inside the package? How deep is it inside, for example?
Can we assume, that it is inside whatever is inside of the package, or rather on the outside of that?

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Thanee

*bump*

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Thanee

Sorry - I missed this bump.

I believe Spades did in fact call Jazz.
The bug appears to be in the middle of one of the sides, just inside the package. The package is wrapped with thick. brown paper and reinforced strapping tape. It is easy to detect a regular RFID tag inside the packaging as well, broadcasting nothing more than a 56 digit alpha-numeric sequence; That is undoubtedly just to identify the package.

Yeah, he did. The question is, whether she receives the call with the spoofed ID. Does the "old number" still work then?
Would be kinda weird, yet convenient.

Ok, I assume that she does receive the call then. Spades is waiting for the call to be picked up for three weeks already, after all.



Ok, Anon, then take your knife out and go surgery! Worth a try at least.

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Thanee

Merry Christmas!

Don't expect to hear much from me for the next week (not sure, whether I will have internet access).

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Thanee