Um... did we ever figure out how or what we are being paid for this? Are we being paid a set rate for time spent as a mercenary or by each mission? Just some questions we should address.

J's "owner"

hmm... it seems as though we stepped out of the tent with details still sketchy on a number of issues: payment, when to strike, what exactly our employer expects from us for this job to be complete. Maybe our team leader should find this out and fill us in.

The job is a 500,000 for "services rendered in the establishment and formation of a facility designated for the emancipation of the region. The contract is not to exceed 2 months, any time after that will require a new contract. Food and lodging are assumed, other costs are removed from the contractual amount."

500,000 each? Pretty sweet deal!

It comes out to a little over 8,000 a day. So expect to work enough to earn that.

Hey I am ready to get it on right now. Lifter is waiting for the rest of the deadbeats to figure out exactly what they need to do.

I guess I am too. It would be nice to have an image for the map, though.
*grin*

I have an image for the map. It is only the most relevant subset of the sattelite photos.

Street Wyze will be responsibe for sending it on to everyone who wants to see it.
(Why? Because I can delegate, that's why.)

Ok, how do I get it from you?


And Latino...STOP USING MY DAMN SCREEN-NAME!

Hey guys, a heads up here, I am feeling pretty sick, a head cold or something. My posts will be on the minimalist side here for the next few days until I am feeling better.

-Shadow

J: I will get a good post out soon and hopefully show some leadership or something.

Rolls Magic Knowledge Skill: 3,3,3,4,5 to remember abilities of forest spirits.

Since you can conjure forest spirits and didn't critically fail, you remember their power list as: Accident, Concealment, Confusion, Fear, Guard, Materialization.
You also remember that they are durable and strong, but slow.
(B: F+4, S: F+4, Q: F-2(x2 running mult.)

If anyone doesn't have the map yet, bother Street Wyze, in about a minute I'll send him a second copy of the map just to be sure he got it.

I would like a copy of said map, send to:

kelvaris@dragonbaitstudio.com

J: For pending negotiations with supply tent for some equipment costs.

Defaulting to etiquette: 1,4,4,5,10

Supply items in question:
Low-light binoculars
Blanket and survival kit w/compass
G.P.S.
Camouflage Jacket (forest) 3/1

(edit) add micro-transceiver rating 2 and encryption rating 2

Equipment Carried

J: Summoning force 6 forest spirit

Conjuring (5) plus 2 S.P. 1,3,4,4,4,6,6

Drain W(5) plus 3 S.P. 1,1,1,2,2,3,5,6

Summoned a force 6 forest spirit with 2 tasks.
Light Stun on drain, ignored by pain tolerance edge.

The following is everything Lifter is taking with him.


On Person
Ares MP-LMG (50 round belt XX loaded)
Micro Flare Launcher (5 flares)
Form-fitting Full-Body Suit
Camo Full Suit (Jungle)
Security Helmet
CougarFineBladeKnife-Long

Load Bearing Vest
Nav Dat GPS
Personal Comm Unit 6
Canteen (1 gallon)
50 round belt XX

Large Equipment Pouch
Chemsuit Lv [6]

Large Military Rucksack
Arbelast II MAW + 2 missiles
(3 meters square) Camoflauge Netting
(4) Field Rations
[1]Tranq Patch
[1]Stimulant Patch
[1]Antidote Patch
Wire Cutters

Please post, Please post, Please post, Please post... and so on until no one actually posts because they want to spite me. Oh well, I guess I'll have to take on the 45 great form demon sprite osteocepticized elves myself, to bad ya'll miss out.

Peace,
PCP

Don't treat my IC post wrongly, I am merely attempting to jumpstart this run into action.

(edit)
I love you guys, you are my only friends.

(edit)
You are correct DH, however, the run was slowing down and I was merely hoping to get it moving again.

Asuming people are late IC because they haven't posted... no, that can't be taken wrong at all.

Edit: In case it's not obvious "he's ready to roll" means he's there and waiting.

I'm afraid Chesterfield only managed to roll a "5" for his stealth test for being up in the trees... Please don't kill me...

Sorry, it's just a silly detail, but "6" is always the designation for the commander.

Dang it, I like five better, oh well I guess Runt's callsign is gonna have to be good enough.

With all graciousness,
PCP

"Zulu 3"? Why "Zulu 3"? Why can't I get something like "Nemisis Enforcer" or "Alpha-Emoticon" or even "Tango-Charly-Fatboy"? I'm making my move for creative leadership of the group when this mission is over.

"Zulu 3", Ha...

Oh, and here is the map

THE MAP!

Perception (Scouting): 2,3,3,4,10,15

First Tree

Perception: 1,2,3,3,4,5
Demolitions (w. Task Pool): 2,3,4,4,5,5,5
Demo Background: 3,3,3,4,4,11

Second Tree

Perception: 2,3,3,5,9,10
Demolitons (w. Task Pool): 2,4,5,5,5,11,11
Demo Background: 1,3,3,3,4,4

First "Mine"

Perception: 1,3,3,3,4,5
Demolitons (w. Task Pool): 1,2,3,4,5,10,12
Demo Background: 1,3,4,4,5,5

Second "Mine"

Perception: 2,3,3,3,4,9
Demolitons (w. Task Pool): 1,3,4,5,5,8,9
Demo Background: 1,2,3,4,9,9

Military Etiquitte (To determine radio frequencies that are usually free): 2,4,5

Athletics (Tree Climb): 1,16

That should cover everything in there.

J: "Hiding within 25 M of Trogdor and in sight of road"
Stealth: 2,3,3,5,5

(edit)
Summoning force 6 forest spirit
Conjuring (tn6): 1,1,4,5,6

Drain/Charisma (tn3): 2,3,3,4,4,5

Summoned force 6 forest spirit with one task, no drain.

(edited again to correct summoning, no retroactive problems)

No truck huh. Well this is an odd twist.

For your edification...


Alpha Sierra = Astral Space
Whiskey = Watcher
Zulu Alpha = Team Asset

Summoning force 3 Watcher Spirit

Conjuring (tn3): 1,2,3,6,6
Force 3 watcher spirit summoned for 3 hours.
Drain/Charisma (tn6): 1,2,3,4,5,6
Drain resistance failed, light stun, no modifiers.

(edit)
If you were wondering; I have done my summoning wrong, I added Spell Pool which I don't get for conjuring tests. I will correct the mistake and not make it again.
(edit again)
Changed my ic post to search for people instead to stop one problem and create others.

Just to ruin your day with the rules, watchers can't find anything that doesn't have an aura.

Why does that ruin the day? The driver has an aura right? And if a watcher doesn't work send a spirit. Or he can go astrally himself.

The original instruction was "find a truck" and the only ways a watcher could find a truck are:
1) if it has been enchanted as a focus
2) if it has somehow been pushed into the astral plane (like the astral constructs mentioned in awakened lands)

By the new instruction, the watcher does have the potential to find something. Watchers are very limited in what varieties of abstraction they can grasp.

Most of this I just learned: Spirits can move amazingly fast astrally, however they cannot search much faster than you or I could run. It may take longer for the watcher to find anything than I thought. In addition, many watchers are stupid and usually screw up the instructions. Most spirits do not have a "search power" that watchers have and are therefore less useful. As for scouting by projecting, I will probably do exactly that because I am impatient and won't give the watcher much time to find anything.

To explain my search method: I will start on the road and look down it for anything suspicious. I will then zoom a Kilometer farther down the road (more or less) and look both ways. Repeat until I pass the river and go about the distance to the edge of the map we have (yes I do know a lot of this is guestimation).

To GM: Will I need to continue to make perception tests every mile or should I do something else? And is there anything else I missed in my description?

Really out of character: Would cyberware (gaes taken to offset) still apply when projecting?

I'll need a barrage of random perception tests for the astral projection.

How many?

About a dozen if you want to roll them.

What kinds of cyberware do you think you could use astrally?

Assorted open perception tests (12 total)
Intelligence (5)
1,2,4,4,9
1,2,2,2,3
1,2,2,5,5
1,1,1,5,11
3,5,5,5,8
2,4,5,8,9
3,4,5,8,9
2,2,2,2,5
1,2,3,3,5
1,2,4,5,5
1,2,3,4,4
2,5,5,5,5

Math SPU, but this character doesn't have any ware so it is not for her.

Investigation of truck:
Perception (5)
2,4,5,5,10

200 M search pattern
Perception (5)
1,2,4,4,23

Test for background count causes
Magic Knowledge Skill(5)
3,4,4,5,5

All astrally projecting forms vaguely near the truck should roll willpower.

J: Willpower (5)
1,1,4,6,6 (sixes were 9 and 11 if it matters)

Rolling Parazoology (4)
1,4,4,5

J. has the overwhelming desire to get far away!

Howl + sense of overwhelming terror. If one creature, it could easily be a barghest. kludde, or fenrir wolf. Whether any of those would live in this area is something you can't remember.
If it's just a case of bad timing, there are plenty of non-dog-like animals (including metahuman spellcasters) capable of causing fear, and there are plenty of dog-like animals that howl.

Stealth test for moving to J's poistion... secretely:

1
2
2
2
3
3
10
10
33 (not even kidding)

Die roll for stealth. Not nearly as impressive
08 05 04 02 02 01 01

Lifter makes a couple of checks,

Perception
05 05 05 02 02 01

Stealth for packing up....
08 05 04 04 02

Just to specify, if you think I was moving on to fast and not giving enough time for a reply, let me know. If you were waiting in game for us to start moving before you went to grab your dets, then my statement stands. If anybody thinks I post to fast or if I am skipping decision opportunities, please let me know and I will space things out more .

First Tree

Demolitions (w. Task Pool): 8,5,4,3,1,1,1
Demo Background: 9,5,4,3,3,1

Second Tree

Demolitons (w. Task Pool): 5,4,4,3,2,2,1
Demo Background: 7,5,5,3,2,2

First "Mine"

Demolitons (w. Task Pool): 9,5,5,4,4,4,1
Demo Background: 10,9,4,4,1,1

Second "Mine"

Demolitons (w. Task Pool): 11,10,4,4,4,4,1
Demo Background: 5,5,4,4,1,1

Stealth: 10,4,4,1,1

4 random perception rolls should be enough to cover the distance to the truck.

J's Perception Tests
1- 2,2,3,4,4
2- 1,2,2,4,5
3- 1,3,3,4,5
4- 1,2,3,5,7

Wow, I might see the tree in front of me, at least then I won't walk into it.

8,8,7,2,2,1
5,5,5,4,1,1
7,5,4,3,3,2
8,5,4,4,3,2