Oh, yeah! I forgot I already had the spell! It's been a long time since I made my character. Doh!

Well, whatever. Steal the stuff. Or don't worry about trying to get it. It doesn't matter to me.

Anyone with Magical Threats, Spirit Lore, or a high Magic Background skill will realize that it is probably some form of Free Spirit possessing the body, or perhaps a Master Shedim.

This is one of the myriad reasons that Astral Magnets can be dangerous...just not this time...

McQ has graciously given me the okay to resume playing Jester. I apologize for my absence but as we all know, life has a way of taking precedence. Expect a post from me soon.


-Shadow

*does the happy dance*

Shadow is back! w00t!

Welcome back, we're still down two players but let's get this thread back on the move.

The Fool is going to get the introductions made for Trixie, but that still leaves the question about how you guys were funding your equipment purchases. There was a roll thrown out for Data brokerage, but I still need to know if you wanted to go slow and steady or one big payoff.

How about a good midway between the two. Not too slow, but not too dangerous.

I am a "eggs all in one basket" kindof guy, so I say we go for the big score.

Too bad its a datascore and has nothing to do with you.

Doesn't have to be data...you have some meat muscle and drones...you could always do a more traditional run...

What, and involve the other half of the team?

What's an Astral Magnet?

What's a shedim?

And welcome back, Shadow!

Astral Magnet is an option in the new Lifestyle rules. You can have your house be an Astral Magnet and all kinds of weird stuff will happen there.

Shedim are evil spirits that possess dead bodies and turn them into a zombie of sorts. Very powerful, regeneration, keeps the memories of the dead person... nasty stuff.

AStral Magnet is a flaw you can add to your lifestyle, it makes life very interesting for the awakened and mundane alike--basically your house for some reason draws spirits and projecting mages to it. Reference SSG

Shedim are spirits that came across with Ghostwalker, though some were here before then. They can possess the living and the dead and have a dark agenda that no one is quite sure of. Reference YotC

Well, I don't have Year of the Comet. Guess I'll start pricing it...

What is SSG? New lifestyle rules?

SSG - Sprawl Survival Guide

Thanks Leo,

so do we have a big score to go after or will we have to come up with something?

I did a Data Brokerage roll for Trixie, she'll come up with something as soon as McQ tells me what it is.

Ecc--If you want a large cut of the pie, but you have to take it in 3-4 pieces, the best case scenario would be to hit a corp and dig up some juicy blackmail material out of personnel files and personal journals or Shadowland generally has info wanted postings....

*Ding Ding!*

Lets hit up Renraku, scour it for Paydata, then dig up stuff on the BTLs that All-Father is using. Two birds, one stone.

edit: added to my last IC post.

I'm still here but I have spotty internet access at the moment. We have electricians here all week upgrading the wiring so at the end of the week I should be back to normal. Thanks for all your patience! Thanks McQuillan for NPCing me during all of this.

ps GO TEAM GO!!

So where are we going pyhsically?

Umm... as far as I know... no where. At least, not yet.

Hmm, I thought Trixie said she was "ready to go"....

I guess you meant in the Matrix... oops.

I'm going to be going out of town for the next 4-5 days starting tommorrow. Work is shipping me off to Florida... and they're giving us a beach day to recover from the long drive

Donovan has a modified Magic attribute of 14, for reference on the ward.

Do we need to roll anything?

What is the Force we are trying for?

You need to roll Magic against the force of the ward that you are trying to create...I presume a force 6 ward since that is what was mentioned in ther IC thread.

Magic: 11, 7, 5, 3, 3, 1, 1

Just wanted to pop in with a quick note to let the GM and everyone know that I should be back shortly, just waiting with Buddha for consistent power and internet connection

Magic (6) Test:
1, 4, 5, 11, 8, 5, 5, 4, 2, 5, 5, 4, 1, 5

Lots of 5s

You only need one success so you're good.

Ecc--Can I get a computer roll from you to access the Renraku system...Also did you want to try and uyse a backdoor--logging in through a public system and then data hopping or just kick in the front door so to speak?

How long till Fenris and Buddha are back? I wanted to talk to Jack about it and see what he thought. Does he have a Validate program?

As far as accessing the host goes, the backdoor is always the best way to go about things, so lets shoot for that for now, just to get us on the host so we can start to analyze it.

Computer + Hacking Pool: 17 10 08 07 05 04 04 04 04 03 03 03 03 02 02 01

Relevant Channel: Access/Deception [4/7 (5/8)]

Nice. I just looked it up and Validate is a Controll Test, which I have a Channel of 8 in, that'll come in handy.

Hopefully by Friday or Saturday...

Using Switch Echo to drop Bod to 6, Evasion to 8, Sensor to 8, and boost Masking to 15, bringing my Detection Factor to 13.

Analyze Host: 16 09 05 05 05 04 04 04 04 03 03 03 03 02 01 01

Control Channel of 8

What was the Rating and Security on the host?

Okay the quick and dirty Matrix layout.

You are looking at a tiered host, the section that holds the personnel files is behind several chokepoints.

Red-10/14/15/17/13/13

The Security sheaf seems to be heavy handed and direct, it began sending Black IC while your tally was in the single digits.

Well, I'm back. They canceled the third inventory and our beach day. Oh well. It was sunny the day and a half we were on the road and working, and raining like crazy the times we were free. Now to catch up on what I missed.

Wow, suckage on the job stuff Whiz.

I'm back, with a steady internet connection I believe, so I should be around and posting consistently now.

And yes, I have Validate (10).

Deckers--Since it was just a fishing trip, I used the simplified Decking rules. When you are ready to assault the tower, we will go through the longer process.

Fenris: Welcome back man. You ready to rock and roll all over that Renraku system?

Absolutely Going to be fun pushing the home-brew deck and prog's versus the Otaku.

Just so you all know OOC, this is what I'm rolling into this with:

Active Memory (4240mp)
ASIST Interface
Icon (6)
I/O Speed (700)
Matrix Interface
MPCP (12)
Bod Chip (9)
Sensor Chip (9)
Evasion Chip (9)
Masking Chip (9)
Ports (20)
RAS Override
Response Increase (3)
Storage
Satellite Interface - 8
ICCM Filter - 11

Programming Suite (10)
Satellite Link (10)
Sleaze (10)
Track (10)
Analyze (10)
Browse (10)
Camo (10)
Deception (10)
Decrypt (10)
Defuse (10)
Evaluate (10)
Mirrors (10)
Purge (10)
Read/Write (10)
Relocate (10)
Scanner (10)
Sniffer (10)
Spoof (10)
Validate (10)
Commlink (10)

Let me know if you need any rolls McQ...

Some Perception checks, a pilot test, and any active sensors if you want to use them.

Perception [7]: 5 3 3 3 2 1 1
Pilot [6+2]: 10 5 5 4 4 3 3 3
Sensor[7+3] : 9 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 1

Dang Budha, here I thought Calisto was blind.

I'm ready for the decking run whenever you are, Mcquillan.

I think we're just waiting for The Fool to get back.

I'm going to push the Fool coming back at the same time that the team gets ready to hit the Host.

I need the DF and an Access test from each decker going. Also if the team is gonig to switch Sattelite hosts, I need a new sattelite test.