Oh yes, you four made a significant amount of money - more than I'd intended, honestly. Now I'll just have to find nefarious ways to separate you from said funds...

Bastards made more money, and there are less of them.

I'm alraedy spending huge chunks of it.

BTW. Shouldn't the credsticks added up to 6000? not 7500 from the Mafia?

The price was 1500 each, and there were only 4 of us.

Guess my question is.. do we have 23500, 22000, or 20500? total?

On?

software, so I can actually be a hacker

I.. made this character a bit too realistic.

5,125¥ each (with the final payment being 6k), if I figured that correctly. That's definitely a nice sum.

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Thanee

You can pirate some stuff on the cheap to tide you over.

Yeah, that's my math as well.

That gets me my pocket hacker, and some other stuff

I have to pirate 5,500 gets basically bupkus with legit software.

You gonna revise some of your BP's? Or stick with what you go to. Also, JP's debating a house rule on hacking (logic+skill) not (skill+program), so hold your horses a bit.

That's not even a house rule, it's an (official) optional rule.

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Thanee

D'oh! It should have been 6K. I was doing the math based on five of you, since you'll soon have a fifth join you.

I'll retcon the original post. It comes out to 3k a piece from the gig, plus 8500 from the Yaks and Triads.

Moral of the story is he's trying to decide whether to use it or not.

Okay doing my Data Haven search roll.

Data Search: 4 Browse 5 +1 Encephalon +2 VR +4 edge = 16d6: 5 4 4 6 3 5 1 5 2 6 3 6 3 1 1 6 7 : 7 hits, 4 6s, Reroll of 6's: 1 4 5 4: 1 hit. Total 8 hits.

So, I find the damn thing in 1 day! woot.

I forgot about Analystical Mind, which should give me another 2 dice, and a roll of 4 6, then 4.

so 1 more hit. a total of 9 hits.

If I could revise some of my BP's.. I would... but I'm not sure he'll let me.

and I'm not sure if I could change him much and stay true to his background.

And Rick's logic is already effectively maxed, so there's no reason to change much there. Just hunt for better software to make the hits cap higher in his case.

I'm going to wait until we're out of the first scenario, and I have things all wound up there, before I give you the info on your data haven search.

Oh, and I stand by the assertion that, if you find yourself wishing you'd done things differently with your character - a glaring omission, a botched "carry the two" in buying gear, whatever - and it doesn't radically alter the character itself, I'll allow it during this first inter-session break.

No, JP is letting us perform reasonable revisions. Since its nice to have a trial run, see how the party fits together, helps you sure up gaps in your character's concept and mechanical play. I ended up moving around 4 BPs...not much.

Yeah, he just needs an actual Hacking skill
Actually I'm saving up for the Cracking Skill group, which is why I want the pocket hacker until then.

The only thing I'd be /tempted/ to do.. is to drop the running 2 and the survival 1, and pick up cracking skill group at 1... I think.

Drop those 12 BP, pick up Cracking 1, and specialization in pistol of :Tasers


and I just wanted to get the skill roll out of the way, totally understand wanting to wait till we're all wrapped up.

Because I just found it (totally by coincidence)... there was the question a while ago, whether a motorcycle can drive itself (via Pilot).

"Note that motorcycles are not capable of driving themselves unless they have the gyro stabilization modification (Arsenal p. 140)."

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Thanee

And it looks like we're at the end of the first scenario. So, some bookkeeping:

Everyone on the team earns 5 points of Karma for the run.

In addition, there are Faction points assigned. You each have earned a point of faction with the Koshari and with the Chavez Mafia. You have lost a point of faction with the Yakuza and the Triads for killing and robbing their men. No point in arguing about who drew down on whom, right now you are personae non grata with both organizations.

In addition, for your success, you may add Mark Longfeather, the Raven-masked Koshari, as a Loyalty 1, Connection 4 contact.

Now that we're not in the midst of a run that's all about getting through those borders, I will abstract any routine crossings to a Fake SIN rating + CHA + Etiquette roll with a threshold of 2, no option to buy successes. That's a little rougher than the RAW of a threshold of 1, but as the penalty is nothing stiffer than a 300Y bribe, I think it's warranted.

If you have plans for your new funds, or to spend any Karma or do research or the like, once you've separated, you'll have two full days, until Thursday morning - call it two and a half days - before things go active again.

I'm going to give us a little IRL time to get things where you want them to be. Feel free to use the IC thread to roleplay out who gets dropped off where, and then use the two threads to describe how you're using the time between Monday night and Thursday morning. If you want to get into any trouble during that time, just post in IC what you're up to - I'm happy to handle one on one situations during the slack period.

Finally, please give some consideration to the idea of running these scenarios at a higher "Table Level" - that is, with a greater difficulty. It's entirely up to you, but what that does is tend to add another bad guy, or increase their stats by some small margin, in exchange for higher payouts. This time I went with the suggested TR1, but could go with TR2 in the future if you felt this was insufficiently challenging.

I think it more likely that a soft corp like Rick would be more likely to have some basic cracking skills than running or survival, honestly. I'll let you decide on the taser specialization. If you're comfortable with a corp being practiced with any sort of gun, then I'm okay with it too.

I edited Rick,
Dropped Run, and survival, got cracking 1, and a specialization of mental in intimidate.

I might suggest that you not get the cracking group and just roll with hacking and E-warfare. Cybercombat is generally unnecssary, and frankly doesn't seem fit your character anyway. (Saves you some points as well)

J, I think we could probably up the Table to TR2, but that's just me. I'll see about picking up stuff with the money/karma.

that's a possibility, although cybercombat in this case is going to be 1/2 price..
but I could drop the specialization, and get 2 hacking, 1 ew for example, instead.. mmmm

So yeah, I think I'm going to pop in Ettiquette to replace negotiation. Makes more sens,e and I dislike defaulting every time I do a border crossing. >_<

As for Karma earned, I'd like to buy a couple active skill specializations. Perception: Visual and Clubs: Batons.

I suppose TR2 would work as well.

We came out of that one combat pretty well (unscathed, IIRC), though there was some luck and preemptive striking involved, certainly.

The commcodes for Striker and Peaches both work for the future? In case we want to use their services.


As for the downtime...

Here's a roll for the Border Crossing 3 hits

Karma
2 -> Unarmed Combat (Martial Arts)
2 -> Pistols (Semi-Automatics)

Money
Ares Viper Slivergun
400¥ + GasVent-3
100¥ + Personalized Grip
_50¥ + Skinlink
Buy some ammo...
Fake SIN
300¥ + Fake License (Personal Firearms)

That is some stuff I would definitely want to do.

I would also like to look into acquiring some wheels (car is too expensive still, so maybe a used bike, or even a simple bycicle (mountain bike) for now ).

Maybe upgrade the SIN to a higher Rating (and get the License at a higher Rating then, too).


BTW, does anyone want the other Slivergun? I would like to keep one, but hardly need two of those...

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Thanee

@Thanee. Might consider a Contrail, they're fairly cheap but have nice performance. We can try selling the Slivergun for extra moola. Might be able to talk to our Raven fixer about that.


Speaking of which, if I have the time, I'd like to pick up a Contrail since I have a cool 5,000 sitting around. It's - Availability, so really it's just a matter of finding a dealer. Also would like to pick up some slug ammo for Jessie. (20 rounds or so should do fine)

All told, that should come to 5040

Yep, I was thinking Contrail (like the picture in Arsenal) or Mirage (for the better Handling), actually.

Not sure selling the Slivergun is worth it... it won't net a whole lot, I guess. Better to just keep it in reserve then, you never know.

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Thanee

It never hurts to have an extra loaded gun around just in case. Put gecko grip on that thing, you can hide it anywhere. It's really cheap and sticks to almost any surface you can imagine, the bed, the ceiling, the wall behind a bookcase, on the underside of your car...

A thought. If we manage to get enough money together and run long enough, perhaps we should consider getting a "team car/van".
The shin-hyung from Arsenal (Page 109) has enough space for 5 people with pretty good performance. It also has 14 mod slots, which means lots of nice options to make it faster or better at getting naughty items across the border. To top it off, the car is pretty cheap, 17k is half the price of a Bulldog Step-van. (If you split the cost evenly, that comes to 3400 between five people)

Faraday - your purchases are all street legal, so you can put something in the IC thread about going and buying those, by all means.

Thanee - have a look at the availability of the things that you want. Consider whether you have any current contacts who would be especially good as a starting point for finding the gear you want, or modifying the weapons in a manner that you want. Feel free to handle the rolls to find the gear yourself, and then RP it out in the IC thread during downtime before Thursday in-game.

Consider keeping the second gun - you never know when you'll need to ditch the one you have or have it confiscated, what with all the border nonsense.

Waiting on cruiser to get the IC thread moving

We need to go find a place to party.. and hee.. Poor Rick needs to get himself a shadowrun handle

Lyle is just.. so uncool.

J.Packer: How do you feel about 1 Cracking vs 2 Hacking 1 EW and not taking Cybercombat? I admit Cybercombat does seem highly unlikely for my character, but I don't want to see like I'm over optimizing.

Ok. Will do.

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Thanee

I'm pretty sure that, when you don't have one, your runner buddies get to name you.

Megamind

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Thanee

Yes, I'm hoping that'll happen

J.Packer: How do you feel about 1 Cracking vs 2 Hacking 1 EW and not taking Cybercombat? I admit Cybercombat does seem highly unlikely for my character, but I don't want to see like I'm over optimizing.

I look forward to the scene where a drunken Rick admits that Lyle is just the name on his fake ID, and tearfully laments his lack of a shadow handle.

I don't know that it counts as optimizing if you're not taking a skill that Rick would have been unlikely to have in the first place. The other two you could pick up by being nosy. Cybercombat stands out as something he'd not be likely to have.

This really seems like one of the last things you have to worry about.

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Thanee

Yeah My character is /much/ weaker than everyone elses For now..

Forgot to address this earlier - you have comm IDs for Peaches and Striker. Neither of them is a full-blown contact at this point, but you can contact them to do business if you would like.

Quick post from smartphone:

I have a busy day today, will post in the afternoon. Cruiser was using "BlackSuit" as Rick's handle!

Does Cruiser know of any local bar where we can have a few drinks!

I will move the action along to a joint along Hwy 85 near your doss. That way you can jump in and post from the bar as it were when you're ready this afternoon.

Sabs, if by Carousing, you mean making sure everyone is having a good time, and being the life of the party, I'll buy that. If you're talking about holding your liquor, we'll be talking about, oh, a BOD+WIL roll, with a dice pool penalty of one per drink after the first, and a threshold of 1 to avoid being embarrassing.

How's that for a from-the-hip houserule?

I ment having a good time, and being the life of the party

He's not going to hold his liquor, cause huh.. he's not going to drink /much/

btw, does Clean Metabolism help with drinking at all? or no?

Reading the description, I'm going to say that it won't help you stay sober, but you're almost entirely unlikely to throw up unless you really go overboard, and the hangover will be mild to nonexistent.

sabs, your Math SPU is malfunctioning.

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Thanee

No it's not

6000 (from Koshari)
6000 (from Mafia)
8500 (from Yak/Triad)
20500
5125 woudl be the right number, I'll edit.

It wasn't my SPU, it was my human brain

Acquiring Gear during Downtime

AV6 400¥ GasVent-3
Extended Test (day) 0 hits + 5 hits + 3 hits -> takes 3 days

AV2 100¥ Personalized Grip (requires Armorer and Artisan Tests with threshold 10 and Tools (Kit))
Extended Test (12h) 2 hits -> takes 12h (to get the materials)

AV6 50¥ Skinlink
Extended Test (12h) 2 hits + 1 hit + 6 hits -> takes 36h

AV2 75¥ Concealable Holster
Extended Test (12h) 3 hits -> takes 12h

AV2 330¥ Flechette Ammo (33 shots)
Extended Test (day) 2 hits -> takes 1 day

AV9 300¥ Fake License (Personal Firearms)
Extended Test (day) 2 hits + 4 hits + 3 hits -> takes 3 days

I believe you do not need to do these things sequentially (otherwise Fixers would have a rather hard time making a living ), so it should take 3 days (the longest time) to get these things, right?

Now I would need an Armorer to put that Personalized Grip on the Slivergun.

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Thanee