That's why I disabled my sig a while ago.



Ok... an example would be great, because... isn't that 3rd person what you say you do not want the posts to look like? I'm confused!



I vastly prefer it that way, too.



Can you please post these in the first post in OOC, as an easily accessible reminder?


As for the IC colors... I have a proposal for you.

How about darkkhaki for thoughts and violet for chatting? They are not quite as bright and a little easier on the eyes that way.

Also, I think spoken words should be colored as well (cyan is the prevalent choice), to make them stand out more in the posts.

Of course, the character name shouldn't be in the same color, so simply gray could be used for those, as they do not need to stand out, really.

And if the timestamp is in bold orange, we would pretty much have the colors that are used in a lot of other games here (and, once more, a slightly less bright color).

BTW, adding the current location to the timestamp is also used quite a lot around here.


For example...


00:42:17 | Tuesday, November 1st, 2072 | Scarlet's Flat, Downtown, Seattle
Scarlet

"What do you think?" Scarlet says.

< [Scarlet] Those colors look pretty good together, don't they? >

I like it that way.

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Thanee

@thanee that is pretty much what I have in the IC post, though you are right the colors are different. I believe I also required the location for the character in there as well though I now have to check it lol.

I like it to stand out for character names so I can easily select it as a GM. Check the IC link in the intro post to this campaign. I have had it laid out for a while now.

Yep, I was refering to the IC post of yours. The proposal is to maybe use these colors here instead.

Bye
Thanee

Ah I have them bright because I am semi-color-retarded and so the bright ones help me at a glance the posts. I know they are kind of eye piercing.

Also, the way you have the mock IC in your proposal is fine as far as organization and style, this was more to a few of the newer guys who I know have never done PbP games before and might be prone to playing as if they were just at a table, not telling a story.

Does that make sense?

Oh and @ gobogen yes I have seen quite a bit of infighting or magical uses on the parts of certain players. While that may be funny in table top it wont be allowed in PbP (im looking at you Mr.Dray). I dont think we have to worry about it, and I've never seen it on DS but I have seen it other places so I thought fair warning to all concerned.

Let's give the dice rolling a try with my starting nuyen.

Low lifestyle points: 10
Middle lifestyle points: 15
My main lifestyle points: 13

Starting nuyen for low lifestyle: 3d6 x 50
Starting nuyen for middle lifestlye: 4d6 x 100

I'm rolling 4 dice, first three are used in case it's the first option. Let me know what my starting money should be.

4d6 → [3,1,6,5] = (15)

I have to apologize: I made my character Jens with 9 too few points. I'm posting a 400bp build here, and if its OK I will it into the "Final Post" section at the top.

I'll do a much easier to check breakdown soon, but I am sitting in Dubai airport on battery life



Differences:
I miscounted the number of spells (I had 11 instead of 12), so I added one
With the remaining 6bp I dropped perception and added influence

Mid-Lifestyle for me as well

Rolled on: 2011-02-04 21:31:18.715739
4d6 → [6,1,2,3] = (12)

12 x 100

Anything else you need or can we get the party started once everyone has their characters submitted?

Nice.

They have recharge stations in Dubai (or was that Abu Dhabi? ), where you can slot some coins in and then recharge your device, but I believe those are only for mobile phones.


@Gortrek: You should always post the actual link to the result page, not just copy & paste the content.

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Thanee

you only get nuyen for the main lifestyle gobogen. not all of them. I would indeed, choose the middle as it will get you better nuyen.

Well be good to go once Leyline7 successfully enters into the OOC (because hes having trouble). However if he doesnt he will be moved to ondeck. So Ill be starting campaign tomorrow at 10am PST with or without.

Looking forward to it.

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Thanee

Maybe you want to put links to the character sheets in the first post on this thread (for your own sanity )?

You can easily get the link address by clicking on the Post #XX in the top right corner of each post.

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Thanee

Yeah I couldnt remember how to link it.

I was only referring to my main lifestyle. The problem is that I used the advanced lifestyle rules in the companion and they don't tell us how to adjust for that for starting money. My main lifestyle is in-between low and middle, but closer to middle, thus I wasn't sure if I should roll low or middle starting cash, or take an average or what. Sorry I didn't manage to get that point across in my previous post.

Actually they do (well, kinda).

Depending on how many points you spent on the lifestyle, you can look up the actual category in the table, which also lists the monthly cost for the lifestyle. It will show you whether to count it as low, middle, high, or whatever it is. That is also what you use for your starting nuyen.

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Thanee

Gotcha, my sheet is updated with my starting nuyen.

First post is up, it's not nearly my best but the rest will be posted shortly, once all the characters are in game you will be free to begin.

OK I have spent 16 LP on a lifestyle which costs me 6,000 per month which is it? Medium? High,

What table are you referring to?

Medium Lifestyle Starting Nuyen roll
1,1000 Nuyen
High Lifestyle Starting Nuyen roll
7,000 NuYen

As Thanee pointed out, it's in the same table that gives you the equivalence between Lifestyle points and cost. Above 15 points, it's immediately high lifestyle, as it turns out. So you start with a lot of nuyen already

I would like to submit a character to go on your "On Deck" list. It looks like you run a very similar style of game to the one I just posted a recruiting post for, so I'm keen to join in, even in on a short list to fill any openings.

Looking at the list of characters, I believe I'd like to put together a street samurai. I will PM you with the character concept in a few minutes.

OK After a happy 40 hours of travel, most of it on an airplane or in an airport, I tracked down why I was being so incompetent with my character (I said early that I spent the wrong number of points). I was using the DK spreadsheet, and somehow it had got corrupt, and was giving bizarre results for some stuff.

Thus I have sorted out the character from first principles in a google spreadsheet which I have linked to in the character description. The nett effect is very small: 1 extra spell and a few skills at 1 that were at 0.

My starting nuyen roll with low lifestyle is: 450 nuyen

I am keeping track of nuyen in the character sheet if thats ok...double entry book keeping is much better for me than a big technical improvement over just a total.

Sounds good, toss a concept my way via pm and Ill get back to you.


To the others: I should have every activated characters IC post done by tonight/tomorrow morning and then posting will be free for you all, had an unexpected work shift take me away from my writing.

Not quite right... High starts at 20 LP (from there and below (on the table) is High).

So 16 LP is Medium.

Basically it is, if the cost is equal to or higher than the corresponding basic lifestyle, but lower than the next higher one, than it is the lower one.

2,000-4,000 is Low,
5,000-9,999 is Medium,
10,000-99,999 is High, etc.

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Thanee

exactly as thanee quoted.

update, probably not going to get all the posting done until later tonight, most of the stuff is written but I got called into work yet again.

Found the table

Runner's Companion Page 153
Lifestyle Point /Cost Table
Points Cost SR4 Equivalent
0 0¥ Street
1 100¥
2 200¥
3 300¥
4 400¥
5 500¥ Squatter
6 800¥
7 1,100¥
8 1,400¥
9 1,700¥
10 2,000¥ Low
11 2,600¥
12 3,200¥
13 3,800¥
14 4,400¥
15 5,000¥ Middle
16 6,000¥
17 7,000¥
18 8,000¥
19 9,000¥
20 10,000¥ High
21 15,000¥
22 20,000¥
23 30,000¥
24 40,000¥
25 50,000¥
26 60,000¥
27 70,000¥
28 80,000¥
29 90,000¥
30 100,000¥ Luxury
31+ Add 25,000¥ per additional level

First post is up for reading pleasure but please dont post until I have everyones take in game. Ill tell you guys when its clear to go.

To see how Scarlet's awesome hacking skills play out, I'm going to make a Hacking+Spoof (12, 1 day) extended test to improve her living conditions (from Low to Medium). She will spend the 2-3 days for this every month.

Let's see...

Hacking 6 + Spoof 6 + VR 2 + PuSHeD 1 + Neocortical 3 = 18 dice

1st test - 7 hits
2nd test - 7 hits

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Thanee

Starting money added to character sheet post.

Lives in Everett in the partial shadow of Federated-Boeing’s Everett factories. A Two story walk up, downstairs is the shop/workplace,upstairs the living/cooking/facilities area.

@thanee I will take this into account once the opening posts are up and you have a reasonable time to do this.

kk just got to post Lock, Kestrel, and Mathias' takes on the incidents in the opening and we will be good to go, sorry about the wait all.

...and Psyche?

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Thanee

Yes lol and Psyche, but may I say it right now wearz I hate you very much >< writing your post is turning out very tough as I was trying to do alot of your thoughts in the native tongue, I hope I don't butcher the syntax even though I know I will. If you know of a decent cheyenne dictionary I would love you long time. Now just have Kestrel Psyche and mathias to do, mostly written but kestrel is taking ages because of word by word translation .

You know you have a dedicated GM when (see above)...

Meh, it's one of my pet peeves, I really like languages to read as the languages they are supposed to be: aka if you are speaking in russian it better damned well be written in Russian. That way I can really get ppl who metagame, if their toon doesnt know russian then they wont know whats going on etc etc. Usually I will PM you what you understand based on language rolls or spoiler them etc.

Datasearch 7 3 hits<G>
Cheyenne Language Online
Cheyenne Topical Disctionary
Cheyenne Common Word List
Cheyenne to English Dictonary Online with Download
Cheyenne Stories and Legends

If you like just write in another color for the Cheyenne Language, I also can not speak or understand written Cheyenne Language.

I guess submitting my Roma or Naga/Buddhist characters would have caused you equal angst.

Apertur3 approves

Lol. As it happens I support the GM in this, but in general hate languages. This stems from trying to interact with a Korean Trade Delegation. They wanted to buy. We wanted to sell. We both had interpreters. We couldn't make the sale because we didn't understand each other.... And it was so so so slow trying to talk to each other.

So if you want a way to screw up understanding, different languages are a brilliant way to go. They are also a good way to go if you want to express something that doesn't have words English. Schadenfreude being my favourite example of this.

yeah, decided to scrap it in the case of cheyenne only (hindi wouldve been tons easier actually now that you mention it wearz) and go with different color writing for cheyenne thoughts and speech. dark green I think. Just so i could finished the damned post. All other languages will be in the actual language though.

very sorry about the delay guys, have had some massive hw and workload hit. I hope to have it rolling by tonight .

Relax!

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Thanee

Ok ladies and gents, all the pieces are in play and we are good to go, I ended up cutting out huge pages of stuff I had written for the sake of flow and to get the game rolling.


I need several things from you as follows:

Jens: You should probably get upstairs asap if you want to hear about the job, if you don't get up there soon, Bianca will come down and take you up anyways, and the pay wont be nearly as good if she has to fetch you herself. You can RP up to seeing her sitting at a private bar (which serves your kind of grub) which channels black and gold colors and heavily accented wood (its too dark to tell what kind of wood it is but you strongly suspect that some of those stains are from unwilling donors). The stairway is at the back of the bar and goes up 3 flights, you want the left hand corridor and then just make up the details of the bar as to what you can see from the doorway.

Nickolai and Lock Together: I need a teamwork test from nickolai in helping lock get the real painting off the wall without blowing any possible unknown sensors. So that needs 2 parts:

- Lock needs to roll security design + intuition
- Nick needs to roll your art stuff + intuition

any net success you get on your test (threshold 4 Nick) will be given to lock as additional dice.

once that is done I need rolls for proper handling of the painting so its not damaged, agility (4) test for lock and intuition + Art background (4) test from Nick

after that I need an artisan test from Nick (threshold 2) to ensure you place it back properly, and an intuition +security design (3) test from lock in order to make sure any secure features you might discover are reconnected etc.

(Scarlet if you want you can do a data search test (4) to see if any diags are hidden on any of the nodes you and kestrel are now rocking about it.

Lock:

You are to help Nick out and then resume your patrols, preferably BEFORE the 15 minutes is up and the bharghests are let loose. You will pretend to find lenny asleep and be very angry with him. Leaving in the morning as the plan is pretty much outlined in your thought checklist is a good idea, however if things go shit-fan complex just get out. Faking your death may be hard and you may have to enlist one of the teams dedicated hackers with entering your fatality into grid links databases etc.

Scarlet:

Need to see a few extended editing tests from you for how well you doctor the footage etc and kill any alarms in the system.
Since you are in the SCC and using the link from a hardwired console Ive given you security access, if you want more you know what to do.

Kestrel:

You can take scarlets advice and move those secure movers where you want them in Sector B as backup decoys, though to your knowledge you guys havent been spotted yet.
Also, you now have a secure (ish) line to your fly spies which are outside the building just chilling on the walls, what you do with them is up to you.

You were hired to ensure that the package is removed (via the cleaners van on the east side of the entrance) and that you do overwatch to counter anyone following etc.

Psyche:

You are (obviously) magical overwatch and the smite button on anything in that vein, the onsite security mage is out for the count due to the drug that he got doped with but they do have a contract for spirit and mage support should anything go funky, so be warned. Also, the museum is rumored to be haunted in the west wing, so maybe just maybe things will be out and about tonight, but the director of personnel didnt seem too worried so neither are you.


To the group in mission currently:

You have about 13 minutes as of game start until the pack is let loose for the night, haste is advised. You guys haven't been detected that you know of but in case you are you have plenty of goodies on the motorized trolley, including things like solvents (good for elminating DNA etc at crime scenes) for covering up evidence of that nature consider that you guys have a shop worth of tools.

A note on timeline:

Nick you have been working on this op for the last 6 months recreating Starry Sky and the rest of the team joined in on the planning about the 3 month mark. Each person is being paid a sum total of 25k nuyen + possible bonus for NOT being noticed. Nick you have been paid 40k for the painting already (the client was VERY specific about qualities) and you had to spend approximately 25k of that on getting materials (the correctly radiation aged paints etc) so your payout is projected to be 15k from the painting and the 25+ any applicable bonus if the run goes smoothly.

There has been alot of thorough planning on this end and so you guys are quite familiar with each other and your antics, treat each person as a loyalty 2 almost 3 person but not as a contact.


Mathias: You have been paid for a job well done, planting that microbial solution in the I&B aquafarm was tough, tougher than expected, you owe 20k in doctors expenses and have 5 boxes of physical damage as well as a slight limp in the left leg... who knew they made aquatic waforms these days... The pay is much better than projected though and now Hellfire owes you a favor. I need you to let me know if you really want that job ( i rpd you listening but if so ill pm you the details and then well go from there). Oh and you also recieve 2 karma for a job well done.


That said, enjoy guys and remember goal #1 surviving to see tomorrow.

I will post in the IC tomorrow, here are the rolls for now.



I'm not entirely sure what "diags" are, but let's have a look for them.

Data Search 4 + Browse 6 + VR 2 + PuSHeD 1 + Neocortical 3 = 16 dice

3 hits



Security Access should be fine.

Hacking 6 + Edit 6 + VR 2 + PuSHeD 1 + Neocortical 3 = 18 dice

4 hits
6 hits
4 hits
5 hits

Bye
Thanee

lol sorry diags = diagnostics, basically you were looking for anything that might hint at hidden security measures that your legwork didnt find.

Ok looks good, no diagnostics found that you can see though there is a memo for a new security framework that was scheduled to be reinstalled sometime this week, doesn't specifically mention sector A, just something about pressure sensors being recalibrated over in Sector B.

You're keeping up with the editing so far, assuming you intended to record a dry loop of footage and just keep reinserting it. All of the other previously recorded stuff is now wiped and replaced with dry loops, only on a very detailed audit will it be discovered that some of the timestamps don't match correctly with the internal node log.

If you feel like it or are bored you can rp editing things in the system, following leads or whatever you want, I've seen enough of your rping to know you wont god mode with it, just dont go past 15:39:00 in game time, you have from about 15:35:50 to 15:37:30 to get the info to Lock about the diagnostics or rather lack of etc to reflect the fact that you only found that memo after a bit of searching though it by no means took anywhere near that much time, maybe 10 combat turns. If you want to look around to see what else you can snag/rip off etc go for it but post rolls first so i can give you an idea of what there is on the system.

I was going to make an IC post, but then I couldn't find anything to add... You already thought and said pretty much what I would have done for my character.

I see.

Could I complement that roll (i.e. use Teamwork; roll the complementing skill and add any hits as bonus dice to the original roll) my Knowledge in Security Systems?

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Thanee

yes you can.


@ gobogen, kk then ill send you the job details when i get back from work.