I dont know where to go from here.... I think we need a kick start
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I think it's up to me at this point. Been a bit busy and waiting for you to settle after the big move.
I'll get on it shortly.
I'll get on it shortly.
Yes; I'd assumed that you were going to get out and about on your voiced plan of negotiating with Petsonal - and that then Real Life had eaten you collectively. Given moves and so on, I didn't intend to be too pushy, but ...
We can go to PP together? I am an average negotiator, but my best negotiation tactic is shooting in the face.
I'm open-minded.
You might find it better not to use face-shooting as your opening position, but it's a hard-boiled world out there.
You might find it better not to use face-shooting as your opening position, but it's a hard-boiled world out there.
I think going together, by car, and contacting them from close by is a good start to getting in for a chat. Blue can do the talking.
Sounds good.
I totally forgot, we picked up some shit from the goons we never looked into.
The truck belongs to HuangBilt /Chin-Ho
- 15-inch knife
- Shock gloves
- Comlink
- 2 Credsticks
- Several datachips
- 2 keychips (3rd one went to the "fishermen's" truck and was left behind
- All the paperwork on the goons truck
The truck belongs to HuangBilt /Chin-Ho
I'm so glad you said that, so I don't have to. Thanks!
QUOTE (pbangarth @ Jun 3 2021, 06:34 PM) 
I'm so glad you said that, so I don't have to. Thanks!
My OoC or my IC?
IC. Perfect setup.
SIN for the win!
Sorry, I have to review my notes to be sure what Blue knows. A sad event in the family has occupied my attention the last day or so. I will post Blue's big pitch shortly.
Hey gang, I will be out of internet contact the week starting Sunday, June 13th. I may be able to find some connection on occasion, but it is a summer property with no direct internet and far from cell towers.
Koekepan, I have a question about the Astral Armor spell. Specifically the one-shot item Blue built at the start.
Being a physical item, it needs to be activated in the physical plane. So, for sure it would work on him if he were perceiving astrally. But would it travel with him if he projected astrally after he had cast it on the physical plane?
Being a physical item, it needs to be activated in the physical plane. So, for sure it would work on him if he were perceiving astrally. But would it travel with him if he projected astrally after he had cast it on the physical plane?
QUOTE (Koekepan @ Apr 30 2021, 10:25 AM)
When Blue wakes up, his karmapool is recharged, and I'll hand out some good karma as well.
"Please, sir. I want some more."
Have fun on your trip.
I haven't posted cause I was traveling again as well. I'll be back in town Tuesday. Our moving truck is supposed to arrive between Tuesday and Friday! Sweet.
I haven't posted cause I was traveling again as well. I'll be back in town Tuesday. Our moving truck is supposed to arrive between Tuesday and Friday! Sweet.
Sweet, indeed.
There is a point at the top of the ridge that splits the island where cell phone reception sometimes works. We call the spot The Phone Booth. I'll try there sometimes to see if I can get through. If not, I'll be back on Sunday ... assuming the troubled ferry continues to work.
There is a point at the top of the ridge that splits the island where cell phone reception sometimes works. We call the spot The Phone Booth. I'll try there sometimes to see if I can get through. If not, I'll be back on Sunday ... assuming the troubled ferry continues to work.
Im back and caught up.
Off island getting parts for water heater. Four bars on the cell phone!
QUOTE (pbangarth @ Jun 16 2021, 02:57 PM)
Off island getting parts for water heater. Four bars on the cell phone!
Rub it in. I just got back from a wedding in Sacramento. I saw dead grass, a dirty river, cows and several methheads. But at least I found some places that could make a decent drink.
Just be sure, Koekepan. She offered fifty nuyen per kilo?
QUOTE (Bastard @ Jun 18 2021, 06:00 PM)
Rub it in. I just got back from a wedding in Sacramento. I saw dead grass, a dirty river, cows and several methheads. But at least I found some places that could make a decent drink.
Yeah, it's hard here too. 2 kilometers of white sand beach, yeah, but the beer has run out. All that's left is wine, whiskey, gin and tequila.
We'll pull through, somehow.
QUOTE (pbangarth @ Jun 19 2021, 04:17 AM)
Just be sure, Koekepan. She offered fifty nuyen per kilo?
Yup. So if you get a teeny-tiny one, you'll have enough for a midnight snack run to Stuffer Shack.
If you get a 250kg one, that would be 12500NY.
QUOTE (pbangarth @ Jun 18 2021, 09:23 PM)
Yeah, it's hard here too. 2 kilometers of white sand beach, yeah, but the beer has run out. All that's left is wine, whiskey, gin and tequila.
We'll pull through, somehow.
We'll pull through, somehow.
Be brave.
AFK on and off till.Friday. will try to post.
Back home now. My head is out of carpentry, plumbing and painting at the cottage. Now back to the important stuff. If only I could figure out what Blue should do about the girl.
I suppose three days of ritualistic torment culminating in a blood sacrifice is quite out of the question?
Well, I've had the torment, and the mosquitos have taken a fair bit of blood. Does that qualify?
I will post tomorrow morning... been house hunting
Bastard: I'd like some sort of perception/investigation check from you given your viewing of the scene.
Assume a target number of 5.
Assume a target number of 5.
QUOTE (Bastard @ Jul 17 2021, 10:01 PM)
I will post tomorrow morning... been house hunting
Good luck! It can be exhilarating or exhausting.
I'll hold my tongue till you have a chance to post. My habit lately has been to either disappear or hog the limelight. Less of a problem when I am the only player.
Work in progress.
QUOTE (Koekepan @ Jul 18 2021, 12:11 AM)
Bastard: I'd like some sort of perception/investigation check from you given your viewing of the scene.
Assume a target number of 5.
Assume a target number of 5.
Perception 5 (-1 TN Perceptive Edge) - 4 Successes!!!
[ Spoiler ]
Something catches Karmakaze's eye, and jogs her memory.
When the mother gropes the new arrival's behind, his jacket rides up and shows a decorative emblem linked to the Children of Purity. To most people, the emblem and name would mean nothing; they're a tiny freak group, but worry the police. Back when she was still in the service, she got briefings about them.
They're a splinter offshoot of Humanis, who are strongly pro magic, with added supremacy sprinkles. It's kind of like a wizkid gang taken in a specially ugly direction. Fortunately, they're a really small group - or were.
When the mother gropes the new arrival's behind, his jacket rides up and shows a decorative emblem linked to the Children of Purity. To most people, the emblem and name would mean nothing; they're a tiny freak group, but worry the police. Back when she was still in the service, she got briefings about them.
They're a splinter offshoot of Humanis, who are strongly pro magic, with added supremacy sprinkles. It's kind of like a wizkid gang taken in a specially ugly direction. Fortunately, they're a really small group - or were.
Well, shit.
New working hypothesis: little girl is being groomed to be a racist spell-slinger. Nice. So what is the dwarf spell-slinger gonna do about it, if it is true? You know, the guy who styles himself as one of Nietzsche's supermen, meant to lead humanity to a higher state.
Thanks, Koekepan. As if he didn't have enough worries.
New working hypothesis: little girl is being groomed to be a racist spell-slinger. Nice. So what is the dwarf spell-slinger gonna do about it, if it is true? You know, the guy who styles himself as one of Nietzsche's supermen, meant to lead humanity to a higher state.
Thanks, Koekepan. As if he didn't have enough worries.
Oh, it could have been worse, I'm sure.
I seem to remember something about a biopocalypse...
I seem to remember something about a biopocalypse...
HuangBilt is ostensibly a legitimate construction company, and a busy one. Officially, everything's above board. Chin-Ho Huang (to use the western order of family name last) owns that as well as a couple of other businesses.
Officially, nothing has ever been pinned on Chin-Ho, but there's every reason to believe that his organisations dance between the illegal, out in the barrens (chopshops, slumlording, loansharking) and the legal out in the bright lights. He has muscle and money and political pull.
Officially, nothing has ever been pinned on Chin-Ho, but there's every reason to believe that his organisations dance between the illegal, out in the barrens (chopshops, slumlording, loansharking) and the legal out in the bright lights. He has muscle and money and political pull.
Free time tonight. I will see if I can come up with something useful for Blue and his spirit to do.
Off the top of my head, and without making any specific recommendations, here are directions that you could consider:
a) figure out something about assessing all people in that house in depth, including the visitor, compiling a more detailed report, and deciding on that basis what (if anything) to do about her, and the Children of Purity.
b) move on from this location, and go hunt down someone in HuangBilt to extract answers regarding the assault in the diner
c) start a heavy investigation into PoliDemos with a view to understanding their true motivations
d) go back to the scene of the safehouse, and see what, if anything, is left in the (possibly still-smouldering) wreckage, after Mitsuhama's goons did their worst
e) try to catch up with some prior co-workers and see what is up with Mitsuhama's new bioengineering activities.
There are others, but I can see all these avenues as immediate prospects, depending on your tastes.
a) figure out something about assessing all people in that house in depth, including the visitor, compiling a more detailed report, and deciding on that basis what (if anything) to do about her, and the Children of Purity.
b) move on from this location, and go hunt down someone in HuangBilt to extract answers regarding the assault in the diner
c) start a heavy investigation into PoliDemos with a view to understanding their true motivations
d) go back to the scene of the safehouse, and see what, if anything, is left in the (possibly still-smouldering) wreckage, after Mitsuhama's goons did their worst
e) try to catch up with some prior co-workers and see what is up with Mitsuhama's new bioengineering activities.
There are others, but I can see all these avenues as immediate prospects, depending on your tastes.
I will try to get something up tomorrow as well.
If you want to include some dialog from Karmakaze, feel free to do so. She can see if she can get someone she knows in the police force to run the plate. Then I think the priority is to check out Chin-Lo and find out why he is after us or you.
If you want to include some dialog from Karmakaze, feel free to do so. She can see if she can get someone she knows in the police force to run the plate. Then I think the priority is to check out Chin-Lo and find out why he is after us or you.
Yeah, I'm happy with the Chin Lo investigation for now. I think Billy's niece should go on the back burner for the moment, though it is interesting to Blue.
So, in the short term tonight, why don't we:
1) get a message out to Karmakaze's police connection,
2) get a new burner for Blue, ditching the current one,
3) pass by the smouldering ruins to see if there is anything left of Madel (the hearth spirit),
4) get some answers from HuangBilt.
Longer run, digging into PoliDemos seems worth some effort. Petsonal Petsonalities looks like it doesn't have much to offer.
So, in the short term tonight, why don't we:
1) get a message out to Karmakaze's police connection,
2) get a new burner for Blue, ditching the current one,
3) pass by the smouldering ruins to see if there is anything left of Madel (the hearth spirit),
4) get some answers from HuangBilt.
Longer run, digging into PoliDemos seems worth some effort. Petsonal Petsonalities looks like it doesn't have much to offer.
Didn't we see the dude arrive? He went to the front door after we pulled up to the house. And you took pictures of the license plate. I am confused.
I think he was at the door when we arrived. We have plate numbers for the vehicles nearby, but I don't think we know which one is his. I'm hoping Karmakaze's police contacts can help her know which plates live here, and which one (I also hope only one) is not local.
pbangarth is right; you weren't there to see him arrive, in the sense of driving up. You spotted him has he stepped up to the door.
Shortcutting so that you can report results when they come in:
You have plate numbers, and quite a few are out of the area, but none of them actually look like a good match for him. He might have taken a bus, or been dropped off, or a taxi ... the possibilities are large, but the certainties are small.
That said, the officers are glad to add a description to a possible member of that weird little group.
Shortcutting so that you can report results when they come in:
You have plate numbers, and quite a few are out of the area, but none of them actually look like a good match for him. He might have taken a bus, or been dropped off, or a taxi ... the possibilities are large, but the certainties are small.
That said, the officers are glad to add a description to a possible member of that weird little group.
Okay... It sounded like we stopped for a bit and the man walked up while we were planning.
Have to go do some repairs at the cottage. Will connect as often as I can there. Back home on the 9th.
I will allow it.
So kind!
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