Well, I would rather have had a taser roll than the initiatives!

But no worries, if that's your action I can open up the sheet, find the pool, and roll the dice easily enough…will put up an IC soon.

Not sure which of your two different tasers you are using, so pardon ambiguity in the post - with him not getting a defense roll, effect is the same!

Yeah sorry, I was running out of lunch break

The Defiance is the primary weapon of choice, the pulsar is a backup...

No worries!

Next….

@TTLG

I'm leaving the super technical, download'y of the info in the capable hands of LeFey, Ali's just a key to get them in and keep their escort 'distracted' enough for the techno wiz to do her thing

Sounds like my cue to give out some more IC info then...might not be until tomorrow now and hopefully we'll hear from RDMarquis/LeFey too!

I'm around. Just preoccupied with work. Not sure where that first paragraph came from, either. The idea of something like My Fair Lady in a cyberpunk setting was a little too amusing not to imply, I guess. : )

I thought it was cool!

Apologies to all, a bad case of man flu and resulting lethargy has set in. I will try and get some IC up soon!

Feel better Aria!!

@TLG:

In the spirit of 'dropping you in it' I've hand waived the interaction between Ali and poor Mr Douglas and dropped LeFey into it up to her ears

The background to this can be found in the 2072 tribes threads if you can be bothered to go looking, or just wait for LeFey to fill in the gory details...

Dang it, I just finally got my hands on Storm Front so I could catch up on what's been happening in the SR world when I was out of the game….now MORE juicy stuff to read…!

Then again, Al wouldn't know any of this LeFey-specific stuff - maybe best see if she reveals anything IC...

Right now, she's just mentioning the most pressing stuff, but I can have her elaborate. By the way, Aria, let me know if I'm taking too many liberties with how Winter is affecting things. He is a Dissonant technomancer, right? Also, hope you're feeling better.

Way cool. Looking forward to that!

Stories are always better when they tangle with the runners' back stories!

@Aria - since this is a plumber's van we stole, can I assume there is something equivalent to an industrial mechanic toolkit here?

Of course I'll also pay for it out of my funds, since we basically took the van's theft as a gimmie.

No problem

Re Tribes: so I can pen an IC without too much back and forth, is the door open when tried? Can I ic Cam coup-de-gracing the twitcher into unconsciousness with a knee to the throat or will it take rolls?

Thanks

Adamu's home PC has imploded so he might not be able to post here for a few days...

TLG:
@LeFey: Can I have a Firewall+WIL resist roll please for the Dissonance Spike. It’s not intended to do significant damage and is more of a ‘shot across the bows’ if you want to describe it IC…

@The rest of you: Will be bringing you into the action as soon as I can! But it might not be unreasonable to assume LeFey is providing you with a feed of what she’s seeing in the matrix…might be slightly unRAW(?!?) but means you can react to matrix events as they happen rather than wait to be told…

@TLG

Okay, let's see how this goes. I'll assume the VR bonus applies, but take off those two extra dice if not.

12d6.hits(5) → [4,5,4,6,5,3,1,6,2,6,1,4] = (5)
5 hits.
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4792004/

Not sure it applies to damage resistance but in this case makes no odds at all to the roll...good successes! No damage!

Back online (sort of - curse Apple, they screw me at every turn).

Yes, the door will open, in fact it was kind of ajar.

And this guy is in no position to effectively resist - render unconscious at will.

Have been wanting to do a "something happens" post, but that is containdicated by the fact that you guys are the sneaky stealthy element going into a place where (according to your intel) you are outgunned 10 to 1.

So I'll have to rely on the PCs to declare the forward movement...

@TLG

Well, based on LeFey's warning, Al will actually sit up straight and take a good look around for threats.

Now if I can remember how to do that link thing to Invisible Castle.

Perception + Intuition = 7 dice
7d6.hits(5) → [5,5,4,5,6,3,4] = (4)

Sweet.

Yikes! I hope Maus has got some tricks up her sleeve or this could be a short trip! Wish I'd bought some flashbangs now

So, anyway, Silkie's perception rolls (done a few just in case...) Int 3+Per 2
5d6.hits(5) → [6,4,2,1,6] = (2)
5d6.hits(5) → [4,4,3,6,4] = (1)
5d6.hits(5) → [4,6,6,1,5] = (3)
5d6.hits(5) → [1,2,5,2,1] = (1)
5d6.hits(5) → [3,2,4,2,4] = (0) Could be worse

Cam's Int 3+Per 2
6d6.hits(5) → [4,2,3,4,2,2] = (0)
6d6.hits(5) → [2,3,6,6,3,3] = (2)
6d6.hits(5) → [1,4,2,3,4,2] = (0)
6d6.hits(5) → [3,1,6,4,5,1] = (2)
6d6.hits(5) → [3,2,2,5,3,6] = (2)

Drone Sn 3 (looks like I didn't buy a clearsight autosoft - something that needs to be amended sometime in the future...)
3d6.hits(5) → [2,6,5] = (2)
3d6.hits(5) → [5,6,5] = (3)
3d6.hits(5) → [2,5,2] = (1)
3d6.hits(5) → [5,5,2] = (2)
3d6.hits(5) → [3,2,2] = (0)

No glitches at least, always a risk with the low powered level

Hey all, afraid that thanks to all my good friends at Apple I am now going to be offline for a few days again.

Hopefully not too long.

Gotta luv the tec

@Tribes

School Image...I'm guessing we are approaching from the south...are the outbuildings still there too?

The main school is 3 stories, , I'm guessing from your description that we are on the left hand door with a corridor going L into the single storey bit (where the kid has come from) and the right in the back of the main building??!

I think you have a better map than I do!

(Because I have Gremlins, the link you posted doesn't work.)

The map I have off the Interweb doesn't show elevations - I am going off the building outlines on Google Maps and images of the main school building on a basic image search.

So yes, you are on the south side of the main building (with the distraction attack coming from the north, where the road is).
The rear door you are at is in the center of the rear face of the main building.
(In my world) there is a corridor extending the length of the south side (boarded windows on the south, classroom doors on the north). Your drone went right, found double doors on the north side at the east end of the hall, couldn't get through, came back.
Now it was heading west (is that annex to the southwest the one-story part you were talking about?).
Out of one of the classroom doors to the west came the kid and the pregnant woman.

Hope that is clear - sorry to be so hopeless with links and so on - I know it makes things hard…

Oh, and yes, the outbuildings are still there. Look pretty dilapidated - I just sort of got things going by having you hit the main building first, as it looked like the most likely target.

@TLG - any joy on that roll?

Anyway, big question.

In the last run, we were all using microtransceivers - with wireless off - as that seemed most secure and also was designed to beat the wifi-dark nature of the place.
Different situation here, but since we all of us were also on that run, are we doing it the same way now?
It would have been Al's first choice for sure, since (like me) he hates all this newfangled wifi crap…

Just thought we should clarify exactly what comms we are using since apparently we are being hacked…as you know from Al's sheet, one throwaway comm is the only thing Al has wireless-enabled on his person unless otherwise stated - but hacking the GPS on that would certainly be enough to find him!!!
And of course I won't do anything until and unless LeFey gives us a heads up about the hack - but if she does, I need to know if taking a hammer to my commlink will kill our communications...

I'm guessing that your comms are voice / voice to text via microtransceivers as before (Winter doesn't know that!). You may or may not be using regular commlinks for more AR data feeds etc. Either way, Ali and LeFey need to have live commlinks active in order to broadcast their (fake)SINs to gain entry to the facility. Winter is hacking this comm on Ali. It won't give him/her/it access to your communications, which will piss him/her/it off I suspect. And pissed off dissonant TMs are not nice! Hopefully RDMarquis can get back to us soon on LeFey's actions, but if I don't hear anything I can ramp things up to the next level quite nicely thank you

Bing Maps was the link I sent you ( http://www.bing.com/maps/ ) - they have a nice 'Bird's Eye' feature which allows you to see buildings from 4 sides from a roughly aerial perspective. Bit handier than Google's streetview as you can see all sides of a building in theory. Don't know why the links aren't working for you though

I think I understand where we are, enough to be getting on with anyway

Made the link work.

That is a very sweet tool, thanks!!!

So now that I can see the school so much better, I can see that there is no back door where I said one was…well…a lot can happen in 60 years!

But other than that, you can assume that the game reality will match what you see in the satellite shots.

The interior, on the other hand….

@TLG

Thought I should ask you before rolling. Would I need to hack Winter's Persona to learn about its sprites?

I confess I would have to shrug on this one...time to go and re-read the TM rules

Anyone that actually knows feel free to shout!


Brave, brave girl...

So, do I take it that you are going to try and hack Winter? Or just matrix perception on his persona...? Something else? There's a handy list of matrix actions etc <<here>> in fact this is where I go first before looking at the core book! If you are doing 'analyse icon' there's a list of questions in the book, 1 per net hit, so if you give me some sort of idea what questions you want answered I'll prioritise those in my response!

@TLG:

Ok, not sure if Vegas can post but you are all now aware that the proverbial is hitting the fan...quite what Winter's move against you will take is unclear but Mr Douglas is going to try to do something which I suspect Ali is more than capable of countering...then what?!?

@Tribes - no roll, but I suppose Silkie's Voice can stop at least the initial reaction from a small child! Threatened mothers may be a different story…we'll see how long the calm lasts!

Hmmm...thought I'd pre-rolled 5 or six voice 'attacks' will have to dredge backwards or re-roll

Oh yeah, my bad, you probably did do some pre-rolls.

I was posting fast before Gotham started!

Anyway, like I said, the kid is a gimmie, and the woman is not being noisy…seems pretty calm, if worried.

Yeah, I couldn't find any rules about a technomancer's connection to sprites, either. If Analyse Icon would help understand what it is up to, let's start with that. Let me make the roll.

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4798145/
12d6.hits(5) → [2,3,3,6,1,6,6,3,2,4,2,3] = (3)
3 hits.

I'd like to ask the following, if possible. Which Complex Forms are Winter using? What sprites are it connected to? Can she get an idea of what Matrix Actions Winter is currently working on? Sorry if the last one's a little vague.

Apologies for my slow post rate recently, will try and get things moving again as soon as I can but work is eating up my free time this week

Pitiful excuse I know...must do better!

I started reading Neuromancer* at the weekend, so I've got a real hankering for some cyber-fuelled rpg!

*for the first time. I know, I suck. I can't believe it's taken me this long. I've been playing Cyberpunk for 15 years!

@TLG - I am thinking we just blow the thing now.

* Ali may be able to Con her way out of her current situation, but that won't really be much of a reset, since this Winter thing is already in there making all manner of mischief.
* Even after we blow it, it's not like the plumbers can have been waiting outside the door (deep flaw in my plan!), so we should give ourselves some lead time.
* A distraction know might return the initiative to us - right now we are getting hit on two if not three fronts - we need to get onto the offensive, I think.

IC, Al and Jan want to go, but Ali and LeFey have both asked us to hold off….

OOC thoughts???

Yeah! BLOW IT ALL!!!! Fire! *eXpLoShUnS!!1!111*

Ahem.

I'm ready to go. I say do it now. Also, how do we intercept the call for plumbers/make sure no actual plumbers turn up?

That is from our basic plan agreed with Aria before we started - so that part is already taken care of.

Vegas? RD? Any objections to moving on to the "things-have-gone-tits-up" plan? Or do you want to try holding the line in there a while longer?
Honestly, odds of that seem pretty slim, with Winter already in there with you, Ali's cover blown, and people on the outside already gunning for Al and Jan.

Okay - now I got to thinking - I have such a hard time with all this panopticon stuff, especially playing such a decidedly non-trenchcoat/mirror shades character!

@Aria - since we abbreviated our prep work per the plan referred to above for the sake of rolling right into things, shall we assume that the plumbing truck has its own comm for work ID and dispatch purposes, and that the appropriated uniforms have ID RFIDs in them?

Well they are all faked and might not hold up under 'extreme' scrutiny but should be sufficient to get you in the building...

Lets blow stuff up already, I wanna shoot someone!

I'm down for carnage (not ours!) and chaos. I'm cool if Al and Jan decide things have swung too far out of our favor and take the initiative to get inside on their own timeline as opposed to waiting for the girls to try to get out of the mess on their own. We're a team after all Right?!?

Sounds like the ayes have it.

Vegas, if you want to/have RL time to push the button IC, cool beans.

I will have time to IC sometime tomorrow, and will do so then if you don't beat me to it.

Rockin' in the free world!

I was going to toss in a vote for not blowing stuff up yet. ^_^; But hey, I'll run with it. Plus, I don't think we could have delayed too much longer.

Have any of you checked out the Shadowland topic? Shadowland7

Made an account yesterday. Not sure what I make of it yet, but if it's good then seems like it'd be perfect for this sort of game

Yikes - do hate to step on toes if you had some more stuff you wanted to do before things go crazy.

But hey, it's not EXACTLY blowing stuff up yet - just a micro charge to burst a water pipe big enough to threaten flooding of the server area if not hastily addressed…

Hopefully won't trigger a red alert on the site just yet….