and so we have been labeled as the cover group? thats gonna hurt the score isn't it. lol

Not me. Crispy might.

Bye
Thanee

Yeah, Crispy has a R2 tacsoft.

The important thing to remember is to actually add the bonus 2 dice when you roll...there was a lot of forgetting about this last time

lol. btw OOC about your character, think you would be able to screw with a radar?

hehe - this gets into the whole EW and "wireless world" sections of SR, which is something I'm not terribly familiar with. The char concept was about being able to do things like this (rather than being an actual hacker who hacked systems on the matrix), so hopefully it's actually possible I need to read the relevant rules sections now to be prepared for this situation, since it seems likely it will come up...

it's as likely to come up as you make it,

if you find the capability for flight, the pilot, the clearance, the flight plan, the landing area and the location of the radar outpost ... and the relevant hardware to disable it... the actual FLYING piece is piss easy !

I'm not trying to make it sound difficult (although it is) just putting it out there that you need a plan quickly between you so I can see what is available, you're also not far from the Fed Boeing shipyards, and also there's the ferry

if you ask nicely there could be air drop and parachutes (although they might turn out to be rucksacks filled with tin cans as opposed to parachutes) .. you tell me some ideas and we'll see how it pans out.

@PhlapJack:

gimme a "LOL" Stealth roll "/LOL" for tha blimp please, Actually .... gimme a Knowledge combat tactics or military, first
(Lets see if you recall the very first IC where you find out you are on the territory of the worlds second largest aerospace corp, and also spitting distance of Seattle main airport, and your thinking about chucking up a frackin' weather balloon)

FRACK! Yeah, you might have a point...but also, maybe by 2070+, having small drones all over the airspace is a normal thing? It's not like this drone is competing with scramjets in the upper atmosphere or anything..although it does have a high altitude mod, so maybe it can...

Combat tactics:
skill(3) + LOG(6) + Enceph(1) = 2 hits

This drone is built more for stealth than the other one, so let's see what the dice gods think...
Pilot(3) + CovertOps(3) = 1 hit
coulda been worse...

ALSO the drone has a Chameleon Coating, so -4 for perception for anyone looking for it...

all good points, taken into consideration... IC inbound

you jest, looking for sparks of intellect would imply longshot had some hehe XD

I forgot the last team had a fantastic and glorious leader to drive them magnanimously into battle

don't say anything too loud though, those pointy ears hear ALL !

drove them crazy, more like! amirite?!?!
...
ok that was the best I could do, sorry

3/10 - must try harder ... it's like being a school teacher

I'm sure it's just military speak ... totally sure

*shudders* brings back memories of grad school. I would've killed to receive a 30% on an assignment...

You just turned a seemingly-routine op into something that's gonna have me jumping at every shadow. thanks a lot!

seriously, it's just a fashion house, on a remote island, separated from the rest of the world, that rules it's employed populace with a plas-steel fist.

What can POSSIBLY go wrong??

thanks - now my coworkers know I'm not working because of my laughter just now

the key component that keyed me in to their evil-ness was the word "fashion". If ever a thing was created to cause despair and strife in the world, it is this...

disappointed in lack of comments on my awesome map making skills

lol sorry it is indeed an awesome map I have a feeling if we take the easy way and go by ferry big stuff is out of the question. hehe

Never assume. Liberal use of contacts and skills
Edit to add. My 'Mo' is pinker than others. If it sounds cool I allow a tolerance for slippage of realism.
Unless it crosses a boundary. Then I do like above and allow a reality check.

Not to say shit can't go wrong. It can ALWAYS go wrong lol.

/meta

can? it almost always will. lol

True.

A quick look around sees the other teams packing for bear

bear? my lingo ain't to good lol

loaded for bear

woot, I get to bring big boy! mwhahahahaahah. hilarity should certainly ensue

going to rest my tired eyes... will post at approx 12:00 GMT to move things on

if everyone has had their fill of questions ?

I'd have thought there'd be some team planning but if you're all okay with Ricoh's plan I'll post up a route and an intro as you drive to the ferry port.

Nova, your smuggler contact might have some "Ideas" about getting across to Vashon with a truck full of munitions, unless you want to wing it and see what happens

see y'all tomorra

Sorry, was pretty busy today... will look at it more closely tomorrow.

Bye
Thanee

Man, my lack of military background really shows, doesn't it? I don't know any of the terminology or procedures. Can't throw around cool terms like "No-LOSS-Mike" and such...

LOL the only military terms I know are NAAFI and the 7P's

the rest is liberal use of Google-Fu

Yes, I am a GM and I admit I "make shit up!"

you're doing a good job of it then - had me believing you and everything

quick clarification question - on your (super-amazing-awesome) map, on the northern point of the Island is a tag saying "Team insertion". This was the location of the last runner team insertion, right? Not where our current team(s) are supposed to be inserted? (god I feel weird saying that word so many times!)

Hammer & Estevez teams will be going in from the insertion point at the north,

Team Ricoh will be taking the ferry from the south

the Runners last position is marked "Runners" just above the ferry

once that area is secured and investigated, Team Ricoh will move further north towards Vashon corp HQ and provide cover
while Hammer & Estevez teams infiltrate and "clean up" the operation.

These parameters may change given circumstances beyond your control, but is the basis of the Op
*****EDIT****
the Ferry is a full Vehicle ferry for 50+ Cars/trucks etc.

Apologies, I don't think my initial IC was overly clear, I'll re-state the situation and hope to make it more fun for you all :

Zermax is looking for new hires from a selection of recommended potentials (ex military, ex runners looking for a regular paycheck.. etc.)

to that end they run events like this to narrow down the selection by scoring criteria (They have 10 Limited spaces from the 15 or so applicants)

THIS day is different, they are combining the trial with a REAL TIME operation that has been bungled, to see how you operate under pressure.

so yes, its real AND a trial run, possibly not what you signed up for, but the offer to leave has been given
(I assumed you want to stay cause I don't have another way to get you involved otherwise, )

Scoring criteria, you imagine (the real is kept secret though a leaderboard has been made available in AR and Crispy has found it.)

Showing Initiative
Following orders
Preparedness
Loyalty
Courage under fire
Dedication to completing the job.

There's probably a lot more but this is the usual fluff and nonsense that you expect to apply at interview.

Does that help ?

***EDIT***

META - you are completely correct in that you would dearly like to trust the other teams, but YES it is competitive, so expect anything can happen

Yep, that is roughtly what I thought.

Bye
Thanee

Ok, so six hours to figure out how to get there undetected.

Guess it's time to ask around some...

Bye
Thanee

Yup, a quick Matrix search turns up the ferry timetable and it does leave every hour on the hour. 24 hours a day
arriving in 22 minutes with an 8 minute turn around for 50 vehicles and walk on passengers.

let me know who you want to call and IC it up when you feel comfortable.

Note: the other teams aer now prepped and relaxing a little in the time before GO, if you want to speak to anyone then you have a window.

I'll give you creative License for the other ten guys too, go crazy with the conversations if you wish

if we had a hacker we wouldn't have to do a thing hehe. just change the scores around :3. howd we lose 20 we are trying to be productive here, somewhat

Don't blame Crispy, he's just happy to see people

hey now, he has a serious medical condition!

Isn't this here happening before Bogotá?

Bye
Thanee

Before the events of the previous Bogota game, yeah. I had Crispy share some background with Hammer from before the game started though, where they had been in Bogota before on some mission or another...although now I'm doubting my memory, I'm trying to find where I wrote that history...Hmmmm....

*edit* found it, starting at post 6 - not important, just verifying to myself that I'm not crazy

and Hammer spent a small fortune on therapy and BTL's to get over the experience

We can neither confirm nor deny any involvement in operations in Bogotá, the operative in question is currently MIA

keep telling yourself that, it's everyone else that's crzy .. honest

THAT explains the strange vid feed that kept interrupting the tacnet for Hammer!

You're not crazy if you're hearing voices in your head, you're only crazy when you start answering them...

Ah, I see.

Bye
Thanee

I assume that IC we are about to move out?

Whenever you guys wanna go, unless there's a detour or another plan,

as long as you get where u need to go, im happy to go with whatever transport you want to arrange.

because we all know HUMVEE's are quiet lol

a fair point - maybe we want to hide and camo the humvee once we're on the island, and proceed on foot?

Although the fact that the ferry brings vehicles over leads me to believe that unless we bring the humvee into a restricted area, it won't be noticed so much. So once on the island, we drive until we find that it's not practical?

sounds good to me.

Did we lose Dakka? Last seen on June 22

I think Crispy, Longshot and Nova sorta did. Dakka's been missing so I guess in-game we might not have a grasp of what his character can do. I'm meta-gaming a little in my post, in that I remember from another game that Brian's got some social skills.

At least I do have the Influence skill group... not very good, but at least no unskilled penalties, if required.

Bye
Thanee

Nova will cast Increase Charisma on herself (and sustain it via Sustaining Focus), followed by Increase Intuition (sustained with the other Sustaining Focus).

Increase Charisma 5 -> 5 hits, no Drain
Increase Intuition 5 -> 2 hits, no Drain

Casting the latter again, if time permits... but combat turns go by really fast, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Increase Intuition 5 -> 5 hits, no Drain

Bye
Thanee