Team-- Remember that you are all still sitting at the Noodle Stand. If the team is dispersing and taking time to gather specific info rather than what you remember from Kn skills, let me know.

Fenris -- Mara's name has not come up in Awakened flora, though Horizon has done some research into it. Similarly her name hasn't come up on the black market.

Public works -- Horizon has set up several prefab buildings near the Covina dam where a large number of refugees are gathered. They offer clinics and education support to the families. There is also a thirty-story apartment building going up where Horizon is guaranteeing housing and a job at their Fun City theme parks. Most of the employees are not doing full construction, but rather the finishing touches like drywall, painting and furniture installation.


Thanee-- generic is easier to track, so I'm fine with that. There's nothing specific about it needing to be per spirit type. Nothing in the data packet suggests a specific timeframe. Remember that the team is paying for the bunker by the week, and there is an Interpol investigation continuing.

Ok. Thought it might be a good idea to pick some of those up for later use. Then I have them if I need them.



Ok. So the question is also for the rest of the team... in what time frame would we want to do this run?



Yeah, seen that. Of course, they won't have found any astral signatures from Siren there, since her effects (spells, spirits, etc) do not leave any up to her Grade (and the only higher one was the Stun Bolt on the Raccoon, which was cleansed away afterwards).

In fact, it could be wise to be apart for a few days, anyways.

Bye
Thanee

Thanee--There were other mages there too.

I know. Plenty, actually.

Bye
Thanee

Yah what is the plan y'all? Are we going to scatter and prep? How long before we actually try to do the job? Does anyone have a rough idea of how they want to do the extraction?

I was trying to figure out if we could describe yourself as a construction crew for maintenance team and it'll take the Enclave and get the extraction done that way.

Send a construction crews are nowhere near her house and be very hard for us to interpret as a construction crew into the residential side of the compound I was going to see if we could use the underground if there are any underground movement going on or anti Polly Club movements if we can maybe have their assistance

If we can find out when/if she does her community support or any other use of free time outside corp compounds. My preference is for grabbing her en route to her job.

What's the normal time to scope out a place and do the job? Is the next mission putting a squeeze on this one?

Copperheed--It's normal to spend a day or two digging around and watching the target's routine to see if there is a good time to grab them. The next mission doesn't have a specific timetable and the team has eliminated the other team that they knew was seeking the same item.

At this point, is the whole team going back to the bunker, just part of the team? It looks like everyone is wrapping up with the noodles and ready to switch scenes but I don't want to rush folks out of their RP.

I'm fine with the scene change - Fenris and I will post tonight in reply to Papa.

I wanted to check in with you, RedJack. Personality-wise, I'd built my character to do sort of the leader thing, since it seemed like we were lacking some direction when I was running before. I dont' want to step on any OOC toes, however, with my IC actions. Does that work for you? Are there things I can do IC to smooth the transition?

@Bishop
In the data correlated from public sources & data havens about Mara, were there any details that could be used to construe any scheduling details, like charity work, etc?

No problems. I would say we role-play it out. As a player, I would welcome one of the more magically inclined taking a lead role though given the intertwining of your two characters I am challenged to see how one of them can differentiate himself as the leader.

Redjack--Nothing that you can find on the Matrix. She seems to have a very small data shadow, with all of her online presence coming from references by other people/groups to her.

Buddha/Fenris -- As you head off to do your astral recon, can you give me your general plan of action?

Rest of the Team -- Where are you headed/plan?

Either for the preparations, which I mentioned, that will take a week... if we won't do this before that time (Siren will be "off the grid" for about a week then); but I can do that after the run, too.

Otherwise, I could do some "gather information" legwork, see if I can find out anything about her usual hangouts and such.

Bye
Thanee

I think the twins are going to try the astral fly by and see what we can find out about her home and her if possible. We are thinking in the evening or early morning (think 3 AM) to try and stealth up then poke around her house. That's the rough outline for now. After that it would be summoning and binding some spirits just in case. I'll talk with Fenris later today and get some posts up with rolls and all that.

Our weekly total is 132.

Astral -- I'll need to know how close you are getting to the physical location before Astral Projection. Infiltration test if you are sneaking. Three Astral Perception tests. Also are you going to be possessed when approaching and while you are out is the spirit left there?

I haven't seen posts for the Assensing data, so here you go.

No new info on Siren.

Zihao's Data
Papa -- Healthy, wary, and mundane.
Brock -- Healthy, alert, and mundane.
Crimson -- Healthy, alert, and mundane.

Gen's Data
Papa -- Healthy, wary, and mundane. Cyberware throughout the head and body.
Brock -- Healthy, alert, and mundane. Cyberware throughout the body
Crimson -- Healthy, alert, and mundane. Cyberware throughout, bioware in her limbs and head. Ess 1.65

Moving my post here, for completeness sake.



Bye
Thanee

Bishop - Given the scattered nature of our data, Buddha and I were thinking we'd do the summoning now, waiting for the tech part of the legwork to get us a little more data on the specifics of her location, then do the astral snooping once we don't have to leave ourselves hanging out there as long.

I'll toss up Summoning rolls once I coordinate with Buddha, but this way you're welcome to move forward, nothing we do should hamper the movement of the thread until we get more data and head out for our recon.

Arcana + Logic (Gen aiding me in interpreting the coins)
12d6.hits(5)=4, 12d6.hits(5)=2, 12d6.hits(5)=6, 12d6.hits(5)=2

Arcana + Logic + Grade (Who is this?)

Siren:15d6.hits(5)=4
Papa: 13d6.hits(5)=4
Brock: 17d6.hits(5)=4
Crimson Butterfly: 13d6.hits(5)=5

Buddha -- As a quick ruling, I'm going to increase the Threshold for Divination tests by the person's Initiate Grade if you don't overcome their Masking when Assensing them. This will apply to Siren's reading.

Thanks for the heads up! Might borrow that adaption for my games if you don't mind.

That ic post is poetic bishop nice touch.

Oy! My apologies you all. I should have told you earlier I was getting swamped IRL.

@Bishop: Butterfly, will start with finding a T-bird for transport, details to be provided by Papa. If no details, then I'll get one for the next week and ready to go anywhere on the continent. Yeah it's expensive. I'll answer papa IC and figure out the rest of my legwork after morning rituals today.

@Redjack: that was what you had in mind, right? The T-bird being ready to go right when we got done with the job?

Seconding Brock's props to Bishop.

My thoughts were for the three non-magical folk to do a physical recon of the neighborhood. Also gives Crimson a chance to drive... If she has another vehicle.

I've got Shin-Hyung that's troll moded. I didn't specify that I brought it to the meet. It might be around the corner, or I could have it meet us at between the noodle stand and Horizon offices.

We could have it meet us at the bunker and the three of us leave from there.

Okay, so as to keep the thread bumping:

Thanee -- What is Siren doing for the next 12 hours?

Mundane Team -- How close to the target's home and office are you getting? I also need the following:
-- Modes of commlinks and active SINs or Licenses being broadcast if any (Hidden mode for example).
-- General plan -- drive by, drive and park, walking around?

All -- Is anyone sharing their info from Knowledge skill rolls? I saw Papa share the data search results, but wanted to check if people are telling other team-members about things like the ACPS etc.

Siren would start to acquaint herself with the area where our target is living. Find some spots to hangout and carefully try to get some information about her, if possible, or otherwise just fit in for now, which could be useful later.

Bye
Thanee

Thanee--In that case I will need the same info that I asked the Mundane team for. Is Siren going now, or getting some rest and going in the daylight hours?

Daylight hours.


And, during the next couple hours, Siren will create a Ward in the new safehouse (Force 6).

Bye
Thanee

Brock would share any knowledge with the rest of the team.

Saytr--Please do so in the IC thread.

Will do.

Summoning a Force 8 Water Spirit:

Magic + Summoning + Power Foci + Mentor Spirit Bonus (16d6.hits(5)=5)

Using Edge: Magic + Summoning + Power Foci + Mentor Spirit Bonus - Minus Previous Hits (11d6.hits(5)=2)

Total of 7.

Spirit Resistance: Spirit's Force (8d6.hits(5)=3), so 4 Services.

Drain from Summoning: Willpower(5) + Charisma(5) + Centering(5) (15d6.hits(5)=4)

One hour of rest - Body + Willpower (8d6.hits(5)=2)

Binding Test (w/Invoking): Binding + Magic + Mentor + Power Foci (16d6.hits(5)=6)

Spirit Resistance: Force X2 (16d6.hits(5)=4)

Bound with 5 services.

Binding Drain: Willpower + Charisma + Centering (15d6.hits(5)=3)

Ouch. Eating 9S to the face.

Now, the Invoking Test: Magic + Binding + Power Foci + Mentor Spirit - Wound Modifiers (13d6.hits(5)=6)

Edging that, cuz it was so damn good!: Magic + Binding + Power Foci + Mentor Spirit - Wound Modifiers - Previous Hits (7d6.hits(5)=2)

Okay, so, final breakdown:

Force 8 Greater Form Water Spirit
Optional Powers:

• Binding
• Elemental Aura

Great Form Powers:

• +1 Reach when materialized
• +8 +17 to Resist Banishing
• Additional Optional Power: Elemental Attack
• Any powers with a range of LOS are now LOS(A), including engulf, and up to 8 targets can be excluded from effect
• Spirit gains the Storm power
• Spirit gains +3 +10 to physical attributes for materialization or possession

Now, the let the healing begin.

Willpower + Body (8d6.hits(5)=3)
Willpower + Body (8d6.hits(5)=2)
Willpower + Body (8d6.hits(5)=4)

3 hours of rest. Total, 4 hours (recuperation) + 8 hours (Summoning/Binding/Invoking)

Going to wait for the healing to be done then do the same - let me know when to post. Don't want to zip too far ahead of the timeline for the IC thread. Thanks!

Isn't it 5S? I think you took your own Binding roll to determine the damage.

Bye
Thanee

The drain from the binding test is increased by 50%, Fenris did the math correctly. 4 hits to resist becomes 8S, plus 50% is 12S, minus 3 on the Drain test leaves 9S.

Our weekly total is 132.

Let me know when is ok to post summoning rolls and I will do so.

Ah, because of the Invoking. I see.

Bye
Thanee

As a reminder I need the following:

Copperheed/Redjack/Saytr:
-- How close to the target's home and office are you getting?
-- Modes of commlinks and active SINs or Licenses being broadcast if any (Hidden mode for example).
-- General plan -- drive by, drive and park, walking around?
-- Please include Perception tests and either Etiquette (were supposed to be here) or Infiltration (you can't see me) tests

Thanee:
-- Test for creating the Ward and Drain
-- How close to the target's home and office are you getting?
-- Modes of commlinks and active SINs or Licenses being broadcast if any (Hidden mode for example).
-- Perception Test and Etiquette Test to blend in with the general population.

Buddha -- Go ahead and toss your Summoning.

All -- I will be posting the bump on Wednesday morning (sooner if I get the information from everyone). For any characters which I don't have posts for, I will presume Active and use the first SIN listed on your character sheet.

Magic + Willpower -> 5 hits
Drain Resistance DV 6 -> 5 hits (1 box of stun; should be no problem to get rid of via rest)

Siren won't be getting too close to her office/home for now. Maybe close enough once to get a look at it from the distance, but not into direct vincinity.

Commlink 1 (Custom Commlink): Hidden, TeamNet
Commlink 2 (Transys Avalon): Passive (if allowed in the area), otherwise Active (if required in the area)
Commlink 3 (Renraku Sensei): offline
SIN (on Commlink 2): Sidney Scott; Freelance Journalist / License: Press Card
Full Masking, as usual; Appearance changed to match the persona (brunette, pony tail, mid-thigh length, dark grey skirt, purple halter top, fashionable, black leather jacket and boots)

Intuition + Perception (general) -> 6 hits
Charisma + Etiquette + First Impression -> 6 hits

Bye
Thanee

Thanee--Don't forget question 2. How close to the target's home and office are you getting?

Brock's rocking Sammy cici sin and I'd rolling around stealth until we are out of the crap holes and around a decent rated area he will move to active.

Etiquette 4d6.hits(5) → [3,5,1,3] = (1) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3906774/
Perception 7d6.hits(5) → [4,5,1,4,4,2,5] = (2) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3906777/
Infiltration 9d6.hits(5) → [4,2,4,2,4,5,1,3,6] = (2) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3906785/

Hammer will be the only weapon, cleaned of course.

Oops! Thought I had written something about that... edited in above.

Bye
Thanee

Force 8 Air Spirit (+2 Power Foci, +2 Mentor Spirit)
16d6.hits(5)=3

Edge
13d6.hits(5)=6

Total of 9

Spirit Resistance
8d6.hits(5)=3 so 6 serivces

Drain 6S (+5 Centering)
15d6.hits(5)=6

Binding Test w/ Invoking (+2 Power Foci, +2 Mentor)
16d6.hits(5)=5

Spirit Resistance
16d6.hits(5)=3

Bound with 8 services.

Drain 9S (+5 Centering)
15d6.hits(5)=6

3 Stun

Invoking (+2 Power Foci, +2 Mentor, +8 Spirit Force, -1 Wound Modifier)
23d6.hits(5)=7

Force 8 Greater Form Air Spirit
Elemental Attack (Optional Power)
Energy Aura (Optional Power)
Psychokinesis (Optional Power)
+1 Reach when materialized
+7 to Resist Banishing
Any powers with a range of LOS are now LOS(A), including engulf, and up to 8 targets can be excluded from effect
Spirit gains the Storm power
Spirit gains +2 to physical attributes for materialization or possession

Healing 3S
8d6.hits(5)=4

So total time is 9 hours plus 3 taking a quick nap to bring it to 12 hours in sync with Zian.

Buddha just brought up a good point - I neglected to include the spirit's force in my Invoking Roll:

Spirit Force (8d6.hits(5)=6)

And I edged it: Spirit Force - Previous Hits (2d6.hits(5)=1)

Edited stats in the above post.

Currently running: Fairlight Caliban with Luke Ho SIN in Passive mode.

+15 or not?

Not that that is a relevant difference... that spirit won't be banished anytime soon.


I also have a question about Possession (just out of curiosity, since I am not generally using that stuff).

The Force is added to physical attributes of the vessel... is that on top of the usual augmented limit? i.e. a human could have Reaction 9 + Force (in the case of a F8 Great Form up to +12 with enough hits on Invoking)? Or is the limit the vessel's augmented limit, i.e. 9 for a human all things included?

Bye
Thanee

Copperheed/Redjack/Saytr:
-- How close to the target's home and office are you getting?
Letting Redjack lead. We're going to Fun City if I understand correctly.

-- Modes of commlinks and active SINs or Licenses being broadcast if any (Hidden mode for example).
Commlink 1 (Sony Emperor): Active with Fake SIN Jillian Valentino - License: Driver's
Commlink 2 (Custom Commlink): Hidden, TeamNet
Appearance: Style for look and clothes is sort of stuck up trendy, but done on a budget. She's pretentious and wanna be hipster and wears sunglasses even though its nighttime (I think its nighttime)

-- General plan -- drive by, drive and park, walking around?
Going to use Rover SUV to drive in.
I think we're walking around Fun City when we get there. Is it a theme park like Disneyland and we have to pay to get in or is it a large collection of shops attractions and malls that you can walk around without paying an entry fee?

-- Please include Perception tests and either Etiquette (we're supposed to be here) or Infiltration (you can't see me) tests
I'm rolling Perception (visual): 14d6.hits(5) = (5)
and Ettiquette: 11d6.hits(5) = (5)
Do I need a disguise check so that I don't stand out as much?
Can I also scan the matrix for noteworthy nodes or chat up some guards for information? How do I do it surreptitiously?

You can wait on my rolls until Redjack sets a plan. I don't actually know what we're looking for here.


And wow to the twins summons!