What does she do for the second Simple Action?

I was thinking on having Vera figure out a solution for world hunger.

I think that might be a free action

Hi. Planning to post tonight. Tomorrow is my late day, so I should be able to stay up late to get some work done. It might be a slow posting week for me, IC wise. Have some studying to do for some personal projects.

Thanks for waiting.

Don't you know studying is a form of cheating? That's what my uncle always told me anyway

And you're welcome. We're having fun envisioning the overlong movie shot that this is turning into

From the the peanut gallery, I'm also enjoying this immensely, IC and OOC thread alike

Wow, Agape is alive. I hope you meant to make that a 'low' boom and not a 'loud' boom, because I have something like a -7 on perception tests to notice my presence based on firing my gun, which I imagine means it is absurdly quiet.

You still never answered if I could do ignore armor and added DV as a single action or not. I'd guess yes because he would have had to be amazingly lucky to dodge a 6 hit ranged attack otherwise (Though he could certainly have magic or something backing him up.). I'm guessing from the way you described it that he didn't do a full dodge (Because I missed as opposed to him ducking out of the way). Just saying because I'd imagine a notable difference between a simple reaction test to defend and a reaction + dodge test. (You saw how my mention of moving a few feet had everyone thinking I'd done a full dodge)

Also, I'm guessing that PB had planned for his spirit to move there in astral (Since it can't materialize) and then posses the guy. You can move at like force thousand meters per second or something like that in astral form, so I don't think it'll take more than a turn to get there.

@SincereAgape
-If Dexter half leans out of the plane's door, does he have a line of fire to the tower?
-Who can he see from that same position? I'm mainly asking in case he needs to communicate with anyone (since he hasn't wired his radio yet... he needs LOS to gesture to people n stuff)
-How far are the two vans from the plane?
-Where is our dwarf pilot?
-Did we land only to get our hacker and grab some extra gear... or do we need to refuel?

-6 for Indirect spells makes a lot of sense, and I'll store that datum for future reference. It's a good idea I may suggest for our own table and is consistent and reasonable... Being able to hit something beyond 750 meters... can you see it to hit it?

The problems is, DIRECT spells don't care about "hitting" and there has never been any mention of DP mods for them due to range. Were you just referring to INdirect spells, SincereAgape?

After Hodder/Peter decides what they're doing, I guess I'm up, and we still had a couple things we needed to get worked out... but I do know what it is I plan to do if you ALLOW me to do it.

Thanks, and we're glad to see you back Ken.

@Karoline, Yes. I took into account that Hawkeye was trying to by pass the armor for the increase in damage value. That is how the attack missed.

@Kerenshara, In the description of casting spells -- on page 177 SR4A, it makes mention that spellcasters take into account visibility modifiers to cast spells. It does not make the distinction between direct and in direct combat spells. And if you're asking for Direct Combat Spells not to suffer a modifier, this will be a rule for NPCs. Meaning...A Magician with cybereyes can easily cast a powerball from 1000 meters away on all of you. Not fun.

@Dexter. Great questions.

1.) -Yes.

2.) - He can see the vans, Ms. Johnson and Vera. Any anyone else on the tarmac (not sure where Belloq, Dartha, and jack are.) The only one he can't see is Hawkeye.

3.) About twenty meters

4.) Behind the van.

5.) You were meant to refuel in addition to picking up equipment and Texas Jack. But the plane does have enough fuel to get to Nigeria.

Just to point out, the attack shouldn't have been a total miss on its own unless the guy had about 13 armor if I remember right. If he does or had some other magical protection, that's fine, but just thought I'd mention since that is alot of armor for a sniper.

Armor of 8-10. Hit four successes on his reaction roll. Safe to assume he's not your average sniper.

OK, SincereAgape, I PMed you. Let me know what you decide and we'll go from there.

@SincereAgape
Do you want us to declare actions in PC order, or just call them whenever we sorta have our minds made up?

Sounds good to me

Still very lucky or burning alot of edge though, considering how bad his init is

Oh, and I have a few questions for you floating around in your inbox, at least one of which needs an answer before I can do my next action.

Hey Dexter. I like to focus on the story. You can declare your actions before hand unless they effect what another player is going to do directly.

IE: Didn't mind your previous post where Dexter ran onto the tarmac to draw the fire away.

But they might not take into affect until your IP. IE, if Dexter were to shoot, the others actions would get to go off first. Also, since the sniper has a higher Initiative then Dexter he would get to attack first.

If Dexter had the higher initiative, then I would have had no problem with Dexter firing out of turn (If the others were okay with it.)

When Jane jumped into the vehicle, did she break LOS to me? If so, the spell ends automatically...

I didn't think you needed LoS to maintain a spell.

Depends on the spell. I would say that something like Deflection would probably need to maintain LOS. But that's why I posted and asked the question.

Oh? Huh, I didn't think any of them required continued LoS. But then again I'm not great with the magic rules.

Don't worry about that I wasn't going to have him jump ahead of anyone; just stating in the OOC what he's going to do when his turn comes this IP. It basically to speed things up (in case, for exemple, everyone posts their actions, and I'm doing overtime at work )

So, here goes not a whole lot.

Simple Action: Take Rifle
Free Action: Switch fire mode to FA
Movement: Take cover by the door
Simple Action: Take Aim (using cybereyes to reduce the range penality)

OK, I got what I need.

When Hodder is done, I'll post my action(s).

You can still see Jane. Her foot is sticking out under the van

Isn't movement a free action and not something that happens automatically?

Fine.

I'm waiting on Hodder.

@SincereAgape
One more quesiton
-Does range affect Suppressive Fire?
I'm mainly asking because if it does, Dexter will aim instead of firing a long burst. If the range doesn't he'll fire this turn, and switch to suppressive fire next IP.

Actually, the way I always understood the rules is that you can move X amount each IP, no matter what you do.
For exemple, on 3 IP, a human gets to run 8m per IP. If he doesnt move one IP, that movement is lost.

Althought, Running is a free action. No action means you "walk"

Yes, and that X is 10 for walking. If you run in IP 1 and then walk in IP 2, and have 3 IPs overall, then you move 25/3m in IP 1, then 10/3m in IP 2.

At least that is how I interpret it.


Which seems to indicate that one you have another Action, your movement reverts to 'standing' until you declare walking/running.

I only have 1 IP, so no one wait on me....it'll be a long wait lol

That's what I always thought it was too.

The book doesn't mention firing a wide burst or suppressive fire is not affected by the range as long as the gun can reach that far. You would just suffer the range penalties and recoil.

The one time Peter decided to go on hiatus... *grin*

So, aiming it is
In case anyone wonders, I'm thinking about spending 1 edge to go first on the 3rd IP. This way, Dexter will be able to lay Suppressive Fire the entire IP, allowing people to move around if they want to

OK, I'm back. Sorry, but I had to come back to the cabin in the woods.

So, in his first pass, Hodder called his bound Fire Spirit and commanded it. It is still in astral space, so it travels 6000 km / hr which equates to 167 m/sec. At the end of the second pass it will be in the tower seeking out the shooter.

Hodder has optical magnification in his goggles, so he can zoom in on the tower and pick a target for spells. Hawkeye's shot missed the assailant, so he is still a viable threat, and also still a potential resource. Hodder's action in the IC thread momentarily.

Stunbolt (Direct), Force 10 - Target: Sniper
MAGic 5 + Spellcasting 6 + Totem 2 + Specialist Sorcerer 2 + Focus 3 - Sustained Spell(s) 2 – Range / Visibility 6 + EDGe 3 = 13 Dice
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2294733
(2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,6,6) = 3 Hits;
Re-roll 2x 6's
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2294734
(1,3) = no additional hits;
Base Damage is 10S + any Net Hits after target rolls WILlpower + Counterspelling.
Drain = [Force ÷ 2] - 1 = 4P
Drain Pool = 12 Dice;
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2294739
(1,1,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5) = 2 Hits, 2P Drain Damage


Well, THAT sucked! Even spending EDGe I only got three hits. That's pretty pathetic. To make things worse, she blew the drain roll. For the record, based on results so far, I think this online die roller sucks. With only 3 hits, the sniper's going to reduce to 0 and make the 2 Physical wounds she took a waste. Oh well.

Just as a note: 3 of 15 as opposed to 5 of 15? That's 60% of nominal. Then the DRAIN roll? 50% of nominal? *shakes head and sighs*

I've been doing well with it so far.

Also, for future refrence, you can do xd6.hitsopen(5,6) to do a roll with edge which will reroll all sixes (including sixes that are part of the re-roll. In other words, perfect for use of edge)

Huh, too much to hope SincereAgape will let me re-roll it now with the new syntax? *grin* I still say it sux.

Oh yeah! I forgot to do Drain.

F2 Levitate has Drain (2/2) + 1 = 2S (Yeah, stun, that's why I limited it)
Drain resistance 8 dice ==> OK, I'm getting that internal server error again. I'll try something. Seeya.

It works fine, Kerenshara. Sometimes It gives lots of hits, other times it doesn't. Sucks to be random.

OK, Drain resistance 8 dice==> 5 hits no Drain

See Kerenshara, see?

Kiss my WHAT?!

*rude gesture and a grin at Peter*

Isn't Dexter in the plane?

Wasn't he last running to-

Crap... never mind. Let me fix that.

If any of you yahoos is Lawful Good, you probably need to go outside and chase Evil-dooers or study the aesthetics of the hangar's architecture.

Dartha's going to make this mundane wish he never took this job... and enjoy it immensely. She may even ask a question or two...

We don't yet know if he is still alive. I hope Dartha won't feel disappointed if he can't be tortured.

She didn't stun him THAT hard.

So, Jane is next, then Hawkeye.

*Jeopardy music playing softly in the background*

Hodder scans the sky for orbital cow bombardment.

Percpetion (Visual): Skill 6, Int 3, Limbic 3, Visual Enhancement 3, Actively looking 3 = 18 (18d6.hits(5)=5)

Provided that the sniper guy seems to go down, Hawkeye will look around for any other threats. She'll be using her weapon scope in low zoom to help her out with low-light and thermal vision.

@Karoline. No other threats seem abroad.