Please post your OOC comments here of course.
Please feel free to post your thoughts that you don't mind sharing as well as cross-talk.

A few things, All Spoken communication, please put in double-quotes "
Put electronic comms in Italics

Actions can be normal.
In stead of using first person, please use your character name when possible, it'll help me cement player with character.

I'll ask you for the skill tests here, with TN. just tell me successes.

And of course, feedback is wonderful.



Adding this link to make it easier for me to find later:
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My char's Gil Stokes. toturi = Gil, Gil = toturi.

Anyway, can Jack pick up the phone please? We don't want to scare away our first customer with lousy etiquette rolls.

1 second. Tom just woke-up

Yes, my character is Thomas Bradley AKA Tom, Tommy, and Tommy Gun when he gets angry (Although he's usually quite tame)

Since we've not yet established what the office is actually like, I think doing that might be useful... Are we going for seperate rooms/cubicles, or is it open planned with our own desks? Personally, I think the latter with an area at the front with a couple of chairs or a couch as a 'waiting' area.

That's all up to you guys, but I would like you all to do a quick bio posted here on your character since you all know each other.

Seattle Politics checks folks, Base TN 4.

Please tell me of you are defaulting.

Quick? bio...

Nat is a Moon Shaman, her beliefs are grounded in Wicca, but are quite eclectic and also include parts from just about every other major religion, and indeed some not so major ones as well. She's quiet, but strong willed and likes to know (or at least think she knows) the full story before making conclusions. She loaths fighting and direct confrontation, and will always turn and run unless given absolutely no choice. If confronted with a foe, she would prefer to bring them down quietly from behind the scenes than make a direct confrontation.

She's a PI because she knows a lot of people who need justice can't, or wont trust the 'real' cops because of their necessarily self-serving corporate attitude and commonly ingrained predjudices.

She has a chequered past, with involvements with the Mob, in particular with a childhood friend/ex called Mike whom she still carries a torch for. Although they're no longer an item, they're still good friends and she still can't help herself from being dragged back into the underworld on the occasions he desperately needs help with things arcane.

As a PI she also has inevitable ties to Lone Star, imparticular through an old fashioned detective called John. In college she made friends with a dwarf who became a metahuman rights lawyer called Sarah, and being a Sorcerer she obviously has a Talismonger contact, called Steve.

When she's not working or practicing magic, she's either got her head in a book (be it a novel, magical journal, or text book), or she's out spending money on clothes or in Steve's Talismongery.

Description:
She is reasonably tall and has a slim build with long white hair that comes to about half way down her back and very blue eyes.

She has pale skin, thanks to her being albino, and a number of tattoos, including angel wings on her back, a feathered serpent around her left upper arm, a celtic knot pattern around her right arm and a tribal sun over her navel. She also has several rings in each ear (some of which are fetishes) and a bar through her right eyebrow.

Skills:
Sorcery, Aura Reading, Electronics/Surveilance devices, Computers/Search Operations, Car, Pistols, Brawling, Athletics, Stealth, Etiquette/Street.

Knowledges:
Security Procedures, Spell Design, Magic, Law, Literature, Poetry.

Languages:
English, Polish, German.

Defaulting to Intelligence, Mnemonic Enhancer reduces penalty to +3. Scored a 4, a 9 and a 10 on the dice (amd many 3s and 2s).

I think my Mnemonic Enhancer might give me some more dice, but I don't know if it counts as a memory related intelligence test (+3 dice), a Knowledge skill test (+1 dice), or neither.

I'll wait to see if I recognise the name before I post again.

I figured the office has walls, but also has frosted glass windows between each room and the main hall. Sound OK?

Angel
The name sounds familiar, sorta that Deja vu' sensation.

Lilt
You could swear you've seen that name or herd it attached somehow to the Mayor's office. He's not an official, but he works for one.

More info as I get the results in.

Edit - forgot it's +4 from attribute

Default to Intelligence: 1, 1, 3, 5, 9, 17. Oooo, lucky dice!

Quick Bio:

Gil Stokes is the son of Nick Stokes, retired criminalistics. Trained at CDC Pathology, worked for the UCAS FBI Forensics before coming out on his own. His field of study is concentrated on physical and biological evidence with respect to magical crimes. He couldn't take simply investigating crime from 1000 miles away since most of the evidence are shipped to FBI labs for analysis and he had ended up feeling he could have gathered better evidence had he been at the scene of the crime.

Contacts are a Lone Star Johnson who hires him as expert witness and a fixer who was an ex-collegue at FBI (the former SAC-Seattle).

Skills: Pistols, Aikido, Athletics, Stealth, Etiquette, Biotech
KS: Sec Procedures, Biology, Forensic Medicine, Magic, Zen Meditation
Languages: English(Scientific), Sperentiel

Toturi
You're sure you've seen the name before, something to do with the Mayor or Deputy Mayor's office.

Mnemonic enhancer? We are allowed to have cultured bioware?

Defaulting to Intelligence on this one: 1 2 2 4 4 5 8

I didn't catch it, my mistake.
Let's move on.
Panzergeist, give me details on what you are doing to monitor the call?

Panzergeist
That name is tickling somewhere in the back of your mind.

Astral perception roll: Intelligence 5, 5, 4, 3, 1. Aura Reading: 10, 5, 4, 2.

Oh, and congratulations on freaking me out just 3 posts in!

What can I say? I love having totems make house calls.
This is a vision, there is no aura per se.
However, the imagery denotes that the Maiden wanted to clue you in on something, I leave it to you to listen or not.

/makes note: when joing game run by Nikoli, play mundane or hermetic

I wasn't expecting there to be an aura or anything, but it's always an obvious and worthwhile check if sorcery may be at hand.

Look at it this way, it's a free version of common sense. Besides I hear people complain how Shamans never interact with their totem save for casting spells or summoning, I think it's boring when that happens. And trust me, if I want someone to have a vision in my games, they will, either in a dream form or through their totem.

Sorry about the late reply. My home Iternet connection is down so I'm replying from a kind freind's house.

Still waiting to hear from Digital Heroin and Panzergeist.

Sorry, never even saw the post asking if it was okay.
Personally I don't mind.
And yes, this means that if you want them for your character Panzergeist, go for it.

Heck, with a name like Oracle Investigations, I'd be surprised if you didn't go for Divination. Heck, almost any of the metamagics would be good, if applied properly.

True enough. Guess I could always ask "Are we going to crack this case?" as soon as we accept it, if the answer's a positive we can charge up front

Don't forget that once you initiate you can do astral quests to reduce karma costs by a bit. A rating 1 or 2 quest shouldn't kill you straight-off and saves you karma on those spells you want.

[edit] Also, If you can handle it: Invoking could be effective as great-form spirits of man have the Divination spirit power. [/edit]

LOL, you are welcome to try that.

Heh. Nikoli may, of course, play the more interesting variety of astral quest where you can't just whisk through the metaplaces doing the resistance tests...

Okay, got my finalized 650k character submitted, with costs meticulously calculated. And I paid my 870 into the office rent.

Okay, Greg performs a perfectly legal search to look up this caller. Since I'm not using hacking pool, I can use the 2 dice of task pool from the encephalon. 1 more task pool from the cerebral booster and my computer(search operations) of 6, for 9 dice. The target number is 4. the base time is (rolls a die) 5 hours.
And my results: 1 1 2 4 4 4 4 5 8 Six successes. I allocate 2 successes to reduce the base time to 5/3 hours, or 100 minutes, ending the search at 20 to 3. That leaves 4 successes to determine my results.

Jack Marshall has been a cop his entire adult life. He was a cop back when it meant something, or so he'll tell you. He and the force parted ways with a mutual dislike for eachother, but that didn't put him entirely out of the loop. He's a follower of the old school. When you need info, his first stop is the bar. He's not above roughing people up or getting dirty to get the job done, but to the core he is a defender of the little man.

He's not without his enemies, both in the system, and on the street. Many people hold a grudge against Jack, but none more than the familia, the Bigio Mafia family in particular.

Active: Pistols, Clubs, Brawling, Athletics, Stealth, Etiquitte(Street/Corp), Interrogation, Intimidation, Leadership, Negotiation, Computers [Incompetance], Lockpicking, Electronics, Car.
Knowledge: Security Companies, Security Procedures, Lone Star Procedures, Lone Star Informants, Dirty Cops, Seedy Bars, Seattle Politics, Mafia Politics
Languages: English, Spanish, Italian

Contacts

Jimmy Sixfingers - Mafia Soldier (Finnigan Family)
Marcus Fynn - Bartender, Jack's old partner
Randall Barnes - Seattle Downtown LS Precinct Cheif

Sorry this took so long.

Panzergeist
Jonus Shultz Info:
Born 05-15-2020
Public LTG: 85A-69DF-8632
Resident of Anne Hill section of Downtown Seattle
Personal Assisstant to Deputy Mayor Derrick Mendelson
3rd Cousin of former Governor Shultz

Graduated Top honors from U-Dub Political Science, minoring in Business.
Member of TKE fraternity
Collegiate Debate team, rowing team, President of the U-Dub chapter Young Republican and current President of alumni organisations for said organisations.

In-case people want a full skill list for Tom:
Active skills:
Pistols, Brawling, Stealth, Ettiquette,Interrogation,Leadership, Negotiation,Computer, Electronics
Chipped:
Athletics, Biotech, Demolitions, Computer B/R, Electronics B/R
Knowledges:
Criminal Organisations, Police Procedures, Seattle Ork Underground, Shadowrunner Haunts, Popular Culture, Fashion, Chemistry, Physics, Forensic Medicine, Security Systems, Literature, Magic, Talismongering, Psicology, Economics
Languages:
English (Cityspeak), Chinese, German, Japanese, Sperethiel, Spanish, Shalish

Digital Heroin
Computer test TN 4 please.

Gil is going to establish a counter-surveillance around the office block. Stealth test is 5, 8, 2, 2, 1, 4, 11, 1, 3, 2, 5, 11.

Toturi, You feel reasonably hidden as teh bums that usually ask people for money don't even bother you.

On casting Alleviate allergy, I scored 6 successes to cast, and 6 to resist drain.

Okay, you feel the Maiden's protection from your elements slide into place.

I don't have my notes at work just yet (just got some sheets to transfer everything to) what is Steve's path?

And please, give me an etiquette (magic) test, TN 4

I'd not gone that far into making him actually, he's a proper hippy so I think Buffalo shaman would work.

The test rolls... a 4 and a 3, so 1 success.

Okay

Great, now I've got this mental image of Ozzy Osbourne as my Talismonger

I-I-I-I-I love you all very dearly, but your all drekking mad.

Though I was going more for a stoned version of teh indian chief from the Mel Gibson remake of Maverick.

Okay folks, at 10 PM EST (-5 GMT) I'll bump to the meeting.
So, if your character is doing something and you haven't posted it yet, please do so.

Angel, I need an Etiquette test. TN 3

My dice are liking me, I rolled an 11 and an 8

Remind me to make etiquette the first thing to bump.

Panzergeist
You saw no mention of kids in his information, nor did you see links to organisations that such an involved person might join if they had children.

Dark Angel, I'm going to hold your actions at this point to give everyone else a chance to act, it's no fun for everyone else if you run away with it just because we're both online at the same time.

Fine by me, I was rather hoping you'd say John couldn't meet till after the original meeting with Jonus. I'll be going bed soon anyway!

I'm fine with other people doing legwork as long as tom is told in-character about anything juicy.

Also: I'm going to bed soon (almost midnight here in the UK) and should be waking-up around 3 hours after the 10:00(EST) update, but I won't be able to post on it properly for another 4 hours or so due to 2 meetings, a tutorial, and a lecture/project deadline tomorrow. I'd make an effort to partake in the social interaction tho as this thing is particularly Tom's Forte.

Gil is keeping a low profile and keeping his eyes peeled. So if I need to make any Stealth or Perception rolls, please tell me.