Red Force One has taken up cover with line of sight to the north end of the pillar. She takes her held action and fires a single three round burst at Tony.

Short range, base target number is 4.
No vision mods.
Attacker's partial cover +2.
No recoil mods.
No movement mods.
Aim for a simple action -1.
Smartlink II -2.

Final target number: 3

5, 4, 4, 2, 1, 1

Note: I will be out of town from today until Monday night, Aug 15. Internet access will be spotty but I'll do my best to stay in touch.

Slip and Scrap- go ahead and bump to waking up at 7, nothing will happen before then. I'll try to write Iris's response and PM it to one of you so you can at least have it and put it up while i'm gone. If there's anything specific you REALLY want to make sure I cover, post it OOC in a spoiler or PM me and I'll try to include it.

Sedna- Let me know as well if there's anything you really need to know from me at this point and I'll try to get it to you before I leave.

Paul- Same for you, but you'll be gone tomorrow anyway, so we overlap a bit.

ASVW people- Ronin and Bandit can call me, so if you need something ASAP, have them get in touch with me.

The next step is to check out the trucks and confirm supplies and plans, WinterRat -- and we've already discussed that OOC so paul and I should be clear for now.

After that, Alleycat's going to be very busy for a while again on self-directed things, so there'll be tonnes of things to do before I need to pull you actively back in later that same day

TN to Dodge is 5 (4 base, +1 for one burst), right? If so:


If not, I'll roll to soak.

How many actions do I have in this round (I think I delayed earlier at 14)

WinterRat1 - The main thing we are waiting on is the information that Iris has, so if you could PM that to Scrapheap or myself that would be great. Probably best to PM it to Scrap, he seems to have a little more time to post than I do at the moment or you could just PM the info to both of us and we can figure out how best to drop the information in the IC thread.

Most of the things I have planned may change or be made obsolete by what Iris pulled out of the system so I will talk with Scrap via PM or OOC thread about how we want to proceed from there. That way we will be ready to go again on Monday.

Four successes will dodge the burst. You've got one action left this round, your delayed action doesn't carry over initiative passes. Once you act, it'll be time for initiative again.

Nice. Continuing to walk north along the pillar, simple action to drop the AR, quickdraw to fire a shot.



Initative for next round is, again, 14.

You'll wing your target for a light. But you're out of cover already on the north end of the pillar.

Ok, I'm stopped there then. Next round, I'm moving toward where I thought I saw Marq.

Tony sees Red Force Two and Red Force Three appear from cover heading west. Red Force Two is wounded, while Red Force Three is covering their retreat with his submachinegun. Red Force One fires again on 17, two three round bursts.

Short range, target number 4.
No vision mods.
Light wound +1.
Partial Cover +2.
No movement mods.
Smartlink II -2.

Final TN 5 (6 for second burst).

First burst: 10, 7, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1
Second burst: 14, 11, 10, 7, 5, 4, 3, 3, 1

Damage is 8S (stun).

Ok, rolling to soak; Ballistic Armor (adjusted) is 5, Impact 2, depending on Three's ammo.

First Burst: 3,2,5,3,5

Second Burst (w/3 CP): 2, 7, 2, 4, 9, 3, 5, 8

I think Tony is going beddie-by, if not, he's moving for cover unless he's in melee range.

You're looking for 6's to soak, with no successes on that first burst you're going to take a deadly stun. You can spend some karma to roll again if you want.

Burn, baby. Burn:
4, 9, 16, 1, 10

Irony.Com: saving crazy Shadowrunner tail since 1996 (although it begs the question, why couldn't it have rolled the first time around? )

EDIT: Just got home to check; I think I'm out cold anyway, unless the Pain Resistance adept power works in this situation.

Sedna- All right, you're clear then, let me know when you need something from me.

Slip, Scrap- I took the liberty of writing the post, hope I didn't overshoot you guys. I figured you'd both wake up and go to the discussion part anyway, so I just jumped there. Let me know if there's a need to backtrack or anything.

ASVW- Ronin and Bandit, feel free to NPC and lead Dragon as necessary, I tried to generally give everyone something to respond to.

Pain resistance would work in this case, unfortunately you're taking two serious stuns, which leaves you at the same level Marquis is at: two light physical wounds. I need both of you to roll body or willpower, whichever is higher, against a TN of 6.

Rolling Body: 4, 8, 17, 5

Made a mistake earlier: I've only got 4 body. Assume Combat pool was used (not that it matters now).

Body

Tony will be the first up in thirty minutes, Marquis won't be back on his feet for an hour.

I don't even wanna know where Tony is going to wake up at...

wheres our decker? Maybe he can saaaaaaaave us

Perception (-1 to TN):2, 2, 5, 19, 4

I think Todd called about half an hour ago...

grendel: I'm going to get a medkit out of my car to check out Marquis, and collect the rest of my gear. The medkit is a bog-standard, Rating 3 model.

WinterRat1 - Do I sense with Aura Reading that Iris is telling the truth and do you want me to roll for it or not?

Todd called Tony at 12:30:12 Thursday, 11 January, 2063, two seconds after Tony collapses into unconsciousness.

(I'll hand out karma tomorrow. (1) lots of work; (2) lousy network today; (3) just fell asleep over the computer again.)

Slip- Unfortunately she's telling the truth. Not even a hint of deception in her aura. Plenty of shame, guilt, anger, and embarassment though.

Temporary Absence: I will be offline from 0600 PDT Wednesday 17 August to 0800 PDT Monday 22 August. I may spring for the money necessary to get on the Indy Convention Center's wireless network, but don't get your hopes up. GenCon promises to keep me very busy. If any of the LitSers are going, I'll be running SR games for FanPro including the tournament.

Have a good trip. Hope the games turn out well!

GENERAL QUESTION:

Has any player character died yet on Lits? When that does happen when(its inevitable when the GMs are using Blimps of Doom) a character is killed? Can the player create a new character and start again? Do they have to wait a certain time before resumbitting?

I'm wondering about a few other issues, if a character opts for cybersurgery which will put him out of action for say a month or two what happens? At the speed which we're advancing the threads not playing for a month or two in Lits time would probably equate to like not posting for a year in real time, so what happens? Same with being arrested, if you're arrested by Lone Star you're out of circulation for at least six months of Lits time, so what happens then?

As I'm watching the threads I keep wondering about that? What would happen if Tony or Marquis had been picked up by Sea-Tac security while they were unconscious for half an hour? Are the character's considered dead or do they have to try and escape or what?

I was just curious.

Fortunately we did cover that in the Guidelines. Check out the section "Character Death".

As to time out: well, there's others who've already opted for long-term projects. There's no fast-forwarding: time's a constant trade-off against toys.

As to arrest: I'd say it's up to you. Do you hang onto the character and bite the bullet re time; or do you abandon that PC to NPC-hood, and create a new one? Only if you abandon, the karma rule probably won't be as generous ...

(That last is my opinion only: it's been brought up in the GM e-mail discussions, but hasn't yet been finalised.)

I was actually re-rolling another character just in case Tony woke up missing some kidneys.

grendel: oh yeah, forgot: suck it up and post

Just to get stuff on track, is Marq's and Tony's stuff still there (car, guns, etc)?

WR1-
Just FYI, I'm waiting on Iris for my next post.

-S

Yes, all your things are still there.

Scrap,

He may be waiting on me. I will post something today. Sorry for the delay. I figure we may have to split up for a bit today as I try to make some calls to my contacts. We should probably figure out whether or not we are both going to check out Mr. and Mrs. Wong at the address Iris found.

WR1 - Did I get rid of any stun damage? I had 5 boxes before I went to sleep.

Slip

Max doesn't have anything set up yet, though he is supposed to leave on a job Wednesday morning. Though the way things are going, he may not make it. He just needs to call a large number of people, but he can do that on the way to check out the Wongs or when he stops off on the way home to pick up a change of clothes and check messages. I am thinking he is going to call a cab as they do still service Touristville. It will give him an alibi if anyone comes looking. He can say he was at The Respite all night helping with repairs. Taking a cab from the Respite will give some validity to the story.

Scrap/Slip - Busy day at work, I'll post when I get home. Thanks for letting me know, because I was waiting on Slip, so it's good we got this cleared up. And Slip, all your stun damage is gone.

Bclements: give me biotech rolls if you're trying to patch yourself or Marquis up. Remember, stun damage can't be healed via first aid, only rest, so the best you can do is get rid of Marquis' light wound.

Sure (Tony doesn't know he's only light injured and knocked out, just checking him out).

Rating on the medkit: 3 (if the medkit can do it for me, here's some rolls: 1, 1, 1). I think it diagnoses him as SURGED with that roll.

Defaulting (Intel?) if I can't use the Medkit: 4, 2, 1, 2, 4

. o O (Marq! Hey, wake up! Does this hurt? *poke*poke*)

So with no successes on your default roll and a botch on the medkit's complementary dice, it looks like you're going to end up doing more harm than good. Probably best to leave well enough alone.

After that roll, that's a good plan.

I was thinking the same thing as BC...just glad I didnt wake up Pulp Fiction style in Zed's basement

A few more rolls like that medkit one and we just may end up like that.

That was fairly amazing, that was.

Sunday karma:

bandit: 1 [August 8-14] = 1
ronin: 1 [August 8-14] = 1
WinterRat: 1 (+1 GM bonus) [August 8-14] = 2

Been a day of stalled and collapsing computers ... something must be going around ...

You know, I've never seen a total botch of all 1s before. Not ever. In...12 years of playing this game that's my first time seeing it. I almost feel like Grendel should have made Tony say just that: Marq! Hey, wake up! Does this hurt? *poke*poke*

I was cracking up at that Grendel. Modern technology, meet prehistoric medicine 101.

Hush, don't give him any ideas. As it is, we're probably wired for cortex nuke's right now.

It's actually something of a standing joke in my tabletop game. The mage is often times faced with 10s and 11s to heal the street sams after a particularly vicious night. With no successes on the roll, it's "hey, tell me if this hurts *poke*poke*".

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (Aug 10th - Aug 16th)
Ecclesiastes: 1 pt (Aug 10th - Aug 16th)
Bastard: 1 pt (Aug 10th - Aug 16th)
Bclements: 2 pts (Aug 10th - Aug 16th)

Scrapheap/Slipshade, are either of you waiting on me?

WR1-
I was wainting on either your or Slip, but I mainly just wanted Iris to see if running those names through public records turned up anything. Plus directions to the address.

I also asked at the end of the post what the group thought of calling the number.

-S

Sorry, I wasn't around this morning to post. I will try to get something more up today if I can.

Looks like I got something up sooner than I thought.

Slip