Sorry again for delays. Life has found a way to bring me more bad karma recently. I will try to get a post up. Sorry for being so unreliable.

I lost my notes from a few weeks ago of equipment, so I had to restart from scratch.

I don't have a price for pepper balls; Capsule rounds are 10y for 10, and Gel rounds are 30y for 10. I placed the price at 30y for 10.
Not sure where the price is on the SmartLink 2, or if that is a different edition. If needed, I will add that cost on as well.


Karma will be contacting Jaxx for this gear.


1,400y Walther PB-120 light pistol ( Cost = 700 base x 2 street index, page 278 CR ) - 6 conceal, 10 ©, SA, 6L
1,400y Built in Smartlink ( Cost = 100% of weapon, page 281 CR )
1,000y Silencer ( Cost = 500 base x 0.75 street index, page 281 CR )
75y Concealable holster ( Cost = 100 base x street index, page 281 CR )
3,875y Subtotal for Walther PB-120


450y Gel rounds x 150 ( Cost = 30 base x 15 x 1 street index, page 281 CR ) - 3 x 10 clips for Walther - 2 x 12 clips for Savalette - 3 x 32 clips for Ingram
390y Capsule (pepper ball) rounds x 130 ( Cost = 30 base x 1 street index x 15 each, page 38 CC ) - 3 x 10 clips for Walther - 3 x 12 clips for Savalette - 2 x 32 clips for Ingram
100y Replacement of uncounted ammo during run
75y Spare clips ( 5 base x 1 street index x 15 each, page 281 CR ) - Assuming first one is free on the Walther
2,400y Superflash grenades x 10 ( Cost = 80 base x 3 street index x 10 each, page 41 CC )
3,415y Subtotal for ammunition

+
3,875y Subtotal for Walther PB-120
7,290y Subtotal Walther & ammo


4,500y Bug scanner rating 6 ( Cost = 500 base x 6 rating x 1.5 street index, page 292 CR )
9,000y Jammer rating 6 ( Cost = 1000 base x 6 rating x 1.5 street index, page 292 CR )
13,500y Subtotal for surveillance countermeasures

+
7,290y Subtotal Walther & ammo

20,790y Subtotal before negotiations


Plus, Karma wants to check on the availability of getting a Maglock passkey.

I can roll however many negotiations you want.

It strikes me that Karmakaze has an awesome CHA at 8, but Blue has a spell that bumps up CHA. So, if we are going into a tricky negotiation, all she has to do is ask. With a target of 8, Blue is unlikely to get the maximum of 4 hits, but 2 are not unlikely, and a CHA of 10 would still be something. Blue now also has a CHA of 8 because of his Sustaining Focus, so the two of them make a stunning pair.

I can see the two of them strutting down the avenue, Stayin' Alive from Saturday Night Fever being sung by three manifested watcher spirits following them, doing some of John Travolta's best dance moves.

It would be amazing!

That's perfectly reasonable. They're non-lethal, I'll simply handwave availability. Buy as many as you want.



Karma will be contacting Jaxx for this gear. In 3rd Ed, your typical choice is Alphaware.




No problem. Do check the availability on the silencer, but the pistol and holster are no problem.



Approved.



I'll want availability rolls for those, given that you want them at rating 6. They're not everyday items.



Depends on rating, but Jaxx knows people who know people. Give me a roll on this one too, please.

Silencer availability is 4/48 according to SR3eCR page 282



Bug Scanner Rating 6 Availability 6/48 hours -
Rolling for Etiquette : [6d6=4, 2, 6, 3, 4, 3] = 1 Success?
Rolling for Negotiation : [3d6=5, 5, 1] = 2 Successes?

Jammer Rating 6 Availability 6/72 hours -
Rolling for Etiquette : [6d6=5, 5, 2, 1, 1, 3] = 0 Successes?
Rolling for Negotiation : [3d6=5, 1, 3] = 1 Success?

These items are not too important, and Karma is willing to wait for them to arrive.



Maglock Passkeys Availability (Rating x 2)/10 days -
Roll for Etiquette : [6d6=4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 2] = 0 Successes? = Maybe a level 2 is available? Lame.

Karma cannot afford this right now, but basically wanted Jaxx to know she will be looking for one in the future.



3,875y for Walther PB-120
Roll for Negotiation : [3d6=2, 4, 5] = 1 Success?


1,015y for ammunition
Roll for Negotiation : [3d6=3, 4, 1] = 0 Successes?


2,400y for Superflash grenades
Roll for https://orokos.com/roll/1036232: [3d6=1, 4, 3] = 0 Successes?

OK, a couple of weeks of waiting for the scanner and jammer. No big deal; they're available, just Jaxx has to put in some legwork to get them.

The maglock passkey: he can do you a level 3, but level 6 is just not available unless ... you could do him a little favour?

You're fine on the pistol and nonlethal munitions.

Groovy!



Definitely can do favors. No work at the moment. Though I won't have the money for that item for quite a while. Are there payment plans?

Whoa! I was going to say you could hit up your buddy for the cash. Then I saw the price! Blue doesn't have that much.

Well, he has about 15,000 nuyen, but with that street index of 3, I don't think that would help you.

He doesn't do payment plans, so a favour would be it.

Ah, the ubiquitous "favour".

He's a fixer. He needs to get things done. Karmakaze has a particular skillset. Synergy is natural, not so?

OK, assuming that there are no modifications to the plan, Jaxx just wants a very simple question answered: Why exactly has MaChef's stock price been falling when they've been expanding? They're all over the entire region, and parking themselves in other regions too, and yet somehow, mysteriously, their stock price is at 30% of its peak.

He suspects that there's something funny about the finances, but he has no smoking gun. Nor even any clear non-smoking guns.

Dreadful dragons, this is the first time that I've been able to connect in nearly a week...

Ah! So I wasn't the only one.

Is there a way to connect outside of DS so we are not shut down? I fear DS has been doing this more and more often and that one day it will be permanent.

We need to pay Redjack more. I think that is the problem.

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I will have to make some rolls for legwork with my contacts later.

Also Karma is going to do some matrix searches on the company to find out basic information from the company website and their linkedin and social medias, also from outside opinion from news and finance sources, as well as from what the public thinks, social media, linkedin, glassdoor, and of course the good ole google machine.