The system attempts to discern patterns of activity which indicate something out of the ordinary is going on: odd shadows moving, figures whose faces are obscured, weapons, gunfire, things of that nature. The easiest way to defeat the system is to look like you belong in the area. Some of the more sensitive pattern recognition even attempt to match the faces on the surveillance cameras with employee database photos, but you don't think that's the case with this system.

Ahh crap.

Thanks for the info, Grendel!

*wanders away cursing softly under her breath*

WinterRat1 - I will be away from the boards until next week.

Slip

Hey Everyone,

Just a brief announcement, tax season is obviously over, and I'm working on getting the tattered shards of my life back together. I will be catching up with posts ASAP over the next few days. I have to deal with various other matters that have been on hold during tax season that probably shouldn't have been that need to take priority, but by Sunday I should be totally up to speed, and making progress on various dumpshock related issues as well!

So just as a checklist, I owe posts for the following people:

Scrapheap
Sedna (via Dragon).
Karma awards for my players

Slipshade did you respond yet? I don't think I saw you in response to my latest post, correct me if I'm wrong. Salvation players, is there anything you need from me that I missed? Just checking, thanks everyone for your patience, and I'll get up and running ASAP, finally!

Diamond is, of course, is from here. It sounded like something he would say.

I fully intend on getting all of the Infiltration Challenge people shadowtalking, so be warned.

I was hoping that was it! But when are we going to see Eyes ("Blondie"?) posting again in SL?

(I'll let the Other Thread ride until Sunday, just in case anyone comes up with anything additional or seriously innovative: and then since you're pretty much there, I'll do that final summary. I don't think I've said this openly yet, but that Other Thread does lie in the backstory of this world (date tba, but a few years before the "present time"; just in case anyone wants to make contacts in common or otherwise know of that run ...? )

Karma Awards for my Players (2 weeks worth; note this is only from the 5th-19th):

Sedna: 1/week + 1/week GM = 4
Paul: 1/week = 2
Digital: 1/week = 2
Scrapheap: 1/week +2 quality = 4
Slipshade: 1/week+1 quality = 3

double post

double post

WinterRat1 - Nope no reply yet. Probably not until next week. Work is to busy right now.

Slip

Kibbitzing is welcome

Stealth test to sneak across the parking lot:
2.3.4.8.13. (8 if task pool from the cerebral booster applies to Stealth tests)

Perception test to scan the parking lot:
1.2.3.5.5.5.5.11.

I've edited my double post from this morning to reflect a stepup in the timeline.

Once I stopped staring at the sheer amount of posting and started reading, I was laughing so hard all the way through that, grendel and Morgannah!

Indeed. Those two are insane, in the best way possible. Makes my inability to follow straight lines seem even more stupid by comparison.

(Oh, and the Cerebral Booster's task pool applies to all INT-linked skills, rather like the Encephalon's. I so wish I had gotten one for my char; so many things I wish I had gotten for my char. )

I'm so feeling like I'm in an episode of True Lies

I had reason to check up on surgery times recently -- with a reasonable BD roll an encephalon is not beyond the realms of the reasonable, even LitS time-wise. But there will -- and should! -- always be more things we want for our PCs

Yeah, but who has the time? I've got to be programming pretty much non-stop to even stay a mediocre decker as compared to the Otaku, who can raise his skill-based channels even more quickly than normal. And that assumes I can find a good team of people to program with, and somehow avoid the Bug rules... ugh. No, I don't think I'll ever have time for 'ware again. I'll be happy if I ever get around to buying a decent MPCP so I'm not forced to take that awful, awful double time on search tests.

Besides, I've got a good game of subjective chess going at the moment.

*bows* Thank you, thank you. I live to entertain, you know. It's even better when I get to have fun too.

Thanks for the heads-up on the task pool, Eyes, I wasn't sure since the wording in M&M isn't exactly clear. As for more ware, though, I'm absolutely chomping at the bit to get pheremones for Cosmo; she could be recovering for a month, game time, and I'd still consider it a fair trade.

No one ever said that there was anything wrong with being a little insane.

Remember, recovering does not equal bed-ridden. Sure there's a lot of things you can't do, but that's when we can explore the more interesting elements of your character. Elements that aren't linked to running around blowing things up or risking one's neck on a daily basis.

I got to post again...Yay!

BTW Slip, you have 9 boxes of stun and 2 physical currently.

Just had to bring me right back down didn't you WinterRat1.

grendel and Ecclesiastes:

Sorry for the lack of posting for the past few days. Work has been very hectic, but should calm down by Saturday evening.

No worries.

Reference.

Question, has the DS site being on and off lately or am i just having difficulties my end, havent been able to get on untill today for the past week? or am i just hitting it during maintenence hours or something silly atm?

Jon / Knight

Moirdryd: Reference. Basically hiccups in the new server.

Sedna: zurramato is spanish (mexican, acutually) slang for "dumbass". I've only heard it in a perjoritive context, although like most spanish slang it tends to have a non-pejoritive literal translation. Seemed approprate, given the rest of Shadowland's response for that poster and my character's background.

Question: what actually counts as trainning time? Specifically I'm looking at social skills, which are a bit hard to just "train" in a vacum, or by studying books or whatever.

On another note, I am so not cut out to play an investigator. This whole sequence has felt like wandering through a maze with no walls, no structure, and no indication of where the endpoint is, or if one even exists. It's extremely frustrating to a linear mind like mine. I have a sinking feeling I'm not going to ever actually make any real headway until grendel gets so sick of my confused nattering that he either bodily forces Eyes into the answer or just has him killed.

For all of you GM types out there I have a suggestion/request for information on Shadowland.

I am interested in the local political scene, I think it is ripe territory for shadowrunning for any and all runners. It would seem to me that political information, like who is running for what office, when the elections are, which party is backing which canidate, which canidate is rumored to be in the pocket of X-corp or the Y syndicate would be of great interest for shadowfolk. As far as I can tell though no one has explored that at all yet.

I just think that would provide all kinds of nifty story hooks, and if people were interested in organizing their own operations that would be a decent starting place. It would also allow GMs to provide relatively easy runs, which could easily spin into all sorts of interesting areas.

Anyway, I was hoping someone could explore that area of the Dumpshock universe and post some information on the Shadowland network.

Hey, you want to do it? I think it's been sufficiently proven that I'm barely creative enough to handle my own character, and most of the GMs are already busy; you want to give it a try? I'm dead certain you won't find too many objections.

For the time being, treat all skill training time as the same. If that changes, expect an update as required.

Also, I have only ever once killed a character out of hand, and that only because I knew the player was planning on making a new character. So Eyes has little to fear about that.

Is anyone but me interested in the political landscape as possible shadow running territory? If no one is interested but me then I won't clutter up your forum with poli-talk but if anyone else is interested let me know and I'd be willing to whip something up.

Patience! It's Monday, it's been a downloaded-upon kind of week (and it hasn't really started yet), many of us aren't really awake yet (I know I'm not), some of us are happy to have electricity at all, and I'm behind on everything -- but it's good to know at least some of us are on top of things

You should know our policy on these things by now, Cedric: if there's an aspect of the world you want to explore, go for it! Write your character in those directions! Start writing political columns on Shadowland! You've got the same knowledge of what's canon-happening in early January 2063 as we do. The only restrictions we place, here, is to clear it with your GM before you write in any events that might reach out and affect another player -- unless they occur as a direct result of what Erebus does, of course

bclements: thanks! (and my glossary of useful Aztlaner Spanish terms grows a little).

Sunday karma (April 18-24):

bandit: (+1 GM bonus) = 1
WinterRat: (1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2

Hey everyone . . . I am back! Thesis-free and back in one piece, ready to pick things back up around LiTS. Just a couple random notes as I get caught up with the events that I have missed around the boards.

1. Sedna and Dragon, I think that recent post should cover the information that Virgil knows that no one else present at the meetings knows. Unless his words spawn further disussion things are ready for leaving the clinic.

2. Moirdryd and Cedric, I will be putting up posts and/or reponses to PM's and emails for the two of you later today. Thanks for bearing with me, and outstanding job Cedric!

Sedna, if you could post something (even small) to let us know if any of the NPCs has anything to say in response to Bandit's post, as soon as I know no one else has anything to add/we are ready to move on, I'll have Dragon lead the team to Jonah's last known location, as per Virgil's mind probe of Cindy. Sound good to you?

Will do. Give me a few hours though -- those e-mails and the Infiltration Challenge had to take priority, and I only had a few minutes so far. Will be today, though.

Man it feels great to be back in the thick of it all

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (Apr. 20th - Apr. 26th)
Ecclesiastes: 1 pt (Apr. 20th - Apr. 26th)
Bastard: 1 pt (Apr. 20th - Apr. 26th)
Bclements: 1 pt (Apr. 20th - Apr. 26th)
The Eyes: 1 pt (Apr. 20th - Apr. 26th)
Morgannah: 2 pts (Apr. 20th - Apr. 26th) [includes karma for Socialite post]

Grendel, here is the roll you asked for...

Demolitions (defaulting to Intel, -2 TN for Microscopic Vision): 17 10 08 08 04 04 04 03 02 02

bandit, WinterRat, I'll need surprise rolls from you.

Surprise roll for Virgil

reaction: 14 04 03 02

Dragon's surprise roll

11 09 05 05 05 04 04 (ah, good roll, might need it here)

Does Perceptive or any sensory 'ware modify the TN at all?

Otherwise, assuming standard TN of 4: 7 successes

Also, I figured it was reasonable to say Dragon would've checked his weapons as a matter of course upon having them returned to him. The actions he took were things I felt he could do in a very brief amount of time before (a potential) ambush. If you feel otherwise Sedna, let me know and I'll edit to adjust.

Actually, that was Intel. Hence it saying "defaulting to Intel".

I checked the defaulting table in SR3 and saw that I couldn't default to electronics.

Probably smart if I read before I posted, eh?