OK I was giving McQ time to kill me there but he didn't bite (thankfully) so I am going to move forward...

No idea, it's been awhile since we chatted with the boss-man and the coffee shop has eaten my brain but I think he's just doing a check in. We'll see....

RE: Falcone--No one has given him a status update, all he knows is that someone tried to kill his chauffeur...and it was the GM trying to remind people that there is gear back at the ranch which may be useful...

Shadow--No assassins this time...can I get a sensor test though.

Sensor test

10 09 09 05 05 03 02 02 02 01 01

Remind me... what gear back at the ranch would be useful?

Calisto and Hafiz went back to the ranch after Jaron was found to be ok...

Calisto:

Hafiz opens the door and drops down out of the SUV. You see his eyes glaze over and he slumps against the side of the car for a few seconds. When he straightens again, he looks over to you.

"Okay, we should be able to go in. You don't have an internal biomonitor which is configured to the network so I shut down the security for a little while."

The Arab man then proceeds into the house, moving with a sense of purpose and ignoring the damage dealt to the lawn and door jamb as easily as families ignore the dead elephant in their living room. He collects two large overnight bags worth of clothing and toiletries before going into the office.

You trail behind him, keeping a watchful eye out for anything dangerous. As he opens one of the drawers in the desk and pulls out a small case, your eye is caught by a blinking light from another room. Turning you see three comfortable ergonomic chairs with obvious harnesses for datacables. Tracing the cables with your eyes, you see they plug straight into Jaron's PLTG which fills the better part of the room.

"We are going, yes?"

Hafiz stands behind you with one bag in hand, the other slung over his shoulder.
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Calisto raises a single eyebrow. "A moment Hafiz, can you tell me what that is?" With a lazy motion she directs her hand towards the chairs, her face remains open and curious.
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Calisto:

"That is the 'command center.' Mr Jaron uses it when he goes into the matrix. Modifications were made to the grid to route some of the processing power as a makeshift deck--he tells me it is stronger than the ones Fairlight sells on the market. I'm not sure more than that though...I do not use such things. If you'd like I can have him explain it to you."

Hafiz looks attentive but ready to go.

Nice... though not much help to Trixie.

true...but when it became obvious that you weren't going to talk to Jaron about the job or try and secure add'l funds through him...I thought I'd remind the team of the other assets.

Feeding sensor info to the Team...

Will wait until actions have been taken and give Buddha and Fenris time to position themselves in the Tea house...

Leo/Whizbang--What are you two doing while the tea house happens?

Whizbang is on vacation until the 20th so don't expect any posts from her. Maybe one of them can hang out in the Tea House with Calisto to back her up with magic support.

Was going to sit in the van as backup.

Sorry if I haven't been posting as often these last few weeks. My fiancee is taking two summer classes in addition to working 50 hours a week with a 1-1/2 hour commute, and I have to spend time helping her stay prepared each day, which unfortunately, cuts down on Shadowrun time. She'll be out in two more weeks though.

Percpetion (Vis Mag 3)
11 10 07 07 05 05 05 04 03 02

Buddha--Roll your Essence for me as well please...

Essence
15 10 04

Will karma if needed to avoid anything nasty.

I'm just using the mechanic as a good way to determine someone's humanity and your ability to get a good gut instinct reaction.

*breathes sigh of relief*

IIRC it's 3.something...rounded down to 3....

Good thing I didn't ask the rigger huh...

Good thing you didnt ask any of my non mage characters. Unless I am constrained by money I usually have the bear minimum.

I didn't want the character to be that far gone on the fleshly bits so did a lot of bioware instead.

Anyone answering Leo before I bump?

Guess not. Donovan will be in the van. I'm assuming he's on the same radio frequency, since he has the stuff to communicate -- Micro-Transceiver and Transducer.

Sorry I thought he was on the team comms and would hear everything we all said. Was I mistaken? If so, then someone get the mage a com unit!!

I'll toss these out now, you can work it into the story as needed.

Etiquette (Matrix): 10 09 05 02 02 02
Negotiations: 27 09 05 04 04 03 (this dice roller is funky)
Good Looking And Knows It

I didnt indicate otherwise, I would have said it over the comms.



Sorry for my absence. Once again my useless immune system was laid low by my 2 year old. Back at work and I should be full strength in a few days. Assuming the brat doesn't sneaze in my direction.

Perception
23 10 05 05 04 04 03 02 02 01

Looking for anyone carrying concealed weapons or paying too much attention to our little group as they do the matrix meet and greet.


PS
Great post Eccy! I really like this character, very different from Paladin.

Ok Cal, fall back by squads and lay down suppressive fire with the incinerators...


hehe, love that movie.


So the herky jerkies arn't doing anything weird? Can I scan for any odd signals coming from the Tea House?

Sure--give me an electronics warfare check along with a scanner if you've got one.

At this point it is probably safe to tell you that their jerking motions were from ... ehh, I'll let the suspense keep going...

Well my personal theory is that there meat pupets. And the AI is controlling them, the herky jerkies!

Electronics (4)
ECCM (2)

08 03 02 01

05 01

Waiting on Trix, Ecce.

Sorry.

You should be!

Unless someone posts to contradict me, I will presume that all members of the team who are physically outside will proceed into the Tea House at this point. Look for a bump this weekend.

I think that is the idea.

That was my understanding however I wanted to give Leo and Whizbang a chance to correct me.

Perception check for Jester (no sensors)

05 05 04 04 02 02 01

Guys, I'm off for the weekend. Over worked and over stressed. A buddy invited me up to his cabin for the weekend to get away from things for a few days. I'll post when I get back.

Has everyone posted? Are we waiting for someone?

I believe we are waiting on Leo and Buddha to make their intros to the Otaku...

Shadow--You don't see anyone with active weapons or bombs...was there something else you were looking for?

got it.

Sorry for my absence, I was abruptly tasked out to do a Win2k to Win Xp migration. Professionally it is a lot of fun but I have little to no access to my games. I will try to catch up and post today. But I suspect this will go on through Friday. Sorry

I'm pushing the thread along...

Question for the group, did you want to go through the whole experience in the Resonance Well or just have me rush through it. The resonance well unfortunately is pretty much an Otaku only thing (and I've never found a good description of it...) but I could arrange for fun stuff outside the well to happen for the team.

Also time to check in, are people enjoying themselves, is there anything I can change to make the game better?

Where do you plan on going after Trixie takes the dive? Are you going to go back to the Renraku host, find Mennon, head back to Seattle and work from your own home turf?

Once I take the dive, we'll have to go back to Renraku and dig up those files linking them to the BTLs. Then I want to use my new Traceroute Echo to track down Mennon and see what we can get out of him. What does everyone else think?

If we go back to Seattle I will be much more armed (my helicopter).

I will of course bow to the will of the group.

I am having fun Mcq, as I said the worm and work is killing me. I think once we get past this point we will be doing better. I think breeze through the well with Ecce.

I'd say go ahead and do the well just with Eccy, from everything I gather it's pretty specifically just an Otaku thing. I could use the programming time anyway

Yeah, feel free to let Ecc do his thing.

We can buzz through it with a time jump unless McQ has something planned for it.

I did my entry back on the 8th..

Sorry for the gap. I caught a virus that nearly killed me. The last time I felt this sick was 11 years ago, and this was still worse. 5 days of hell. I'm feeling better today for the first time.

I don't care if we do the well jump or not. Since I have never even read the Otaku section of Matrix, it might be interesting.

I think the game is going pretty well. It's not all action, but that seems to be working. I think it would be nice to kill some people. Lots of people. That's just me though. If there is something coming up for Donovan to do, I think he'd like to do something other than hang out with Jester all the time. No offense to Jester.

Enjoying the game (sorry for late post, lots of shifts this week) and I agree with more killing but that's more selfish on my part since my character's built to hack people up. I like the flow and the constant background tension. I came into the game knowing there might be little for me to do but look menancing.

On the what next question, I've been following the groups lead so we'll see what pops up after the Dive and what info we can find then.