I'd say let's keep going ourselves...

Post all the rolls that you think would be associated with the activities you are trying and throw an IC post that lays out a general framework for Fenris to fill in the details.

He'll be back soon. Now the impetus falls on us to not go away...

I'm still here. I'm hanging on 'till I get Billy into at least one fight, dammit!

Still here as well. I got nothing but time.

I'm down for moving forward ourselves as Bishop has suggested. I'll try to post IC tonight or tomorrow, but I need to wait for Redjack.

Umm.. I'm waiting on Fenris....?

So much for that. I figured somewhere in the middle of idly phone-flirting the day away, Billy would actually go ahead and give his Fixer a call and ask if she knew anyone going to the Expo.

The dice say "no," and "fuck you." (last die roll)

Redjack: Sorry. To clarify, Ammon wanted to do some astral scouting before we went into the hotel, right?

Yea. Make a first pass to get a feel for barriers, spirits, occupants, layout.

All - My apologies. I had meant to update the game every week, regardless of the IC movement, but Real Life™ has unfortunately intervened. I have been ridiculously busy lately basically remodeling my entire house on somewhat short notice. I anticipate that this will continue to consume the majority of my attention until the beginning of next week. I hope to be able to pick back up on my original posting schedule at that point. I will allow a week to continue wrapping up the scene at the apartment, and then move forward with the run on the Expo.

Just a friendly reminder, but I'll be out of town and away from my usual internet access, off at Gencon 'till Sunday night.

Ready and waiting!!

Back from GenCon and ready to roll. My plan of action is to watch over Widget while she does her thing, then prep for the run on the expo.

How's everyone feeling? Are we ready, are there contacts that you want to call before Fenris gives us the big push?

Alright, let's get this monster up and rolling again!

So, this week I'm wrapping up recon, next Sunday will start with the actual run. And yes, that's Sunday. I'm bumping it forward a day because my school semester is starting on Monday, and there's no way I'm going to have time to post on the first day of school So, from now on, bumps on Sunday.

Billy - Unfortunately Jesse won't be able to get you in. She's on her way, but passes have been sold out for weeks. It would take more strings then she can pull at the moment to get you guys in

Ammon and Vertigo - If you're trying to be unobtrusive, give me an Etiquette roll. I'll also need a general Perception. If Ammon is going astral, give me a separate Perception roll, and an Assensing for anything your assensing. If you're trying to sneak in the astral, I'll also need an Infiltration + Logic roll. If either of you are looking for anything specific at the hotel, like security, etc. please feel free to post the appropriate knowledge skills. Also, feel free to toss up a little IC to match your actions.

Djinni - Message sent. You know from experience it will probably be a few hours before you get a response.

WOOOT!!!

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Casting (Physical Mask @ Force 4): 2 Hits

Resisting (DV 3): 1 Hit

Etiquette: 2 Hits

Perception: 3 Hits

Security: 1 Hit

I don't think Invisible Castle likes me...

@ Method - In the future, you're more then welcome to just roll dice and post the results, or use some other dice roller that doesn't keep the rolls and copy them over. I don't require the use of Invisible Castle.

No problem boss. I don't mind so much- it keeps me honest. Just never seems to roll above average...

Anyway, at this point I think I'll wait a bit for Redjack to post, in case he wants to infiltrate the hotel together.

Post this afternoon, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Also, I worked with the Invisible Castle guy and submitted some code to him.. It supports .hits() and .hitsopen() in development. Waiting to see when he will port that code to production. It will then count successes instead of presenting the sum() of the rolls!!

Redjack - Astral Perception: There are no obvious wards from the exterior of the hotel. However, you can see the astral form of two spirits twisting and spiraling around the dim gray shape of the building. They seem to ignore anything not entering or interacting with the hotel. Keeping a safe distance and circling around, you can see through windows that there are several warded rooms on the top floor. They look to be groups of rooms, probably suites.

Has someone watched Ronin recently?

I see our plan's influence has been revealed...

I knew the homage would not be lost on this group...

So, is there anything else our physical infiltration team is looking for at the hotel?

I'd like to know how difficult it would be to get into the area of the hotel the dev team is staying in, since ultimately we were hoping to get a look at their personal security situation.

Do we know specifics about what rooms they are staying in?

Just bumping to say I'm still here and hopefully Fenris will see it and answer the question.

Method - Since you don't have specific hotel room numbers, it's difficult to tell. It will be hard to get to any of the rooms without being seen, and harder to get to rooms above the 34th floor. You'd need like, some sort of hacker or something

While you're there, the two of you don't actually spot the team from GTI leaving the hotel. Either they didn't come down while you were there, or they flew from the roof.

All Bump. Don't forget the weekly drip of karma. This week (August 27th through September 2nd) will be the actual run.

@Budda - We need Widget to do some sniffing for us and find out how the team will travel..

Okie dokie! Let me read a little to figure out how and what to do (1st hacker character here in SR4) but I will have a post up this afternoon.

Ok doing the slower but safer method of hacking the hotel to find out what we need to know.

Extended Hacking + Exploit Threshold = target's System + Firewall

1st Hour
02 05 05 06 06 (4 hits)

2nd Hour
03 03 05 06 06 (3 hits/7 total)

3rd Hour
01 05 06 06 06 (4 hits/11 total)

4th Hour
03 05 05 05 06 (4 hits/15 total)

The threshold is at a +6 since I'm trying for admin access and let me know if I need more rolls since I have no idea what the threshold actually is. The target gets one free Analyze + Firewall test when I make the actual intrusion. The threshold for that test is my Stealth rating which is a 4.

Guarding Widget's Body while she is out...

Place the biomonitor and if necessary First Aid
[5,5,4,2,6,4,3,6,6] Threshold 2, Heal 3 boxes of damage
Presuming modifiers of Indoors -1, Patient is a TM -2

Once we have a location for the prize, Hiver will be nearby but not immediately on scene. Have the infiltration types, go inside make the swap and get out. If there is combat, Hiver will insert himself using a stun baton to disable guards and keep his people alive. Lethal force on the part of our opposition will result in escalation to the Predator with explosive ammunition.

If the swap is to happen outdoors and en route to the expo, Hiver will place himself on the roof of a nearby building with the Walther MA-2100 to snipe guards and security personnel in case of violence. He will NOT engage civilian personnel such as the sararimen with the prototype. Anyone with a weapon is not considered to be a civilian.

Ok looking around to figure out what I am looking and where to go next to get the data we need.

Matrix Perception Test
02 03 05 05 06 06 06 06 (5 hits)

I am going to see if I can grab Fenris and do this IM or RL to speed it up since I am dragging as it is and hacking can slow things down all by itself.

Hopefully we can locate a time when the crew is lacking proper magic support. If so, then Ammon can possibly make some combined use of invisibility and magic fingers to make the swap with the replacement that Widget creates while Vertigo causes a distraction, possibly with Billy's assistance. Hiver can provide long range tactical support.. from the business side of a scope in case it goes to hell.

How does that sound for a first pass at a plan? Of course this depends upon our being able to discern their security plans and finding a hole where magic security is weak.

For a backup plan, I was thinking we make a run at the team like we're trying to steal the device. Of course we make the swap then cut and run like its blown.

Other ideas?

I think it could work. I'm not certain their magical security will be much problem for the swap as long as we don't enter the show dripping with spirits or mojo. I think if they have a spotter working the floor we should be able to find a time when he/she is distracted or we could simply make our own distraction and make the swap with some magical assistance.

As a follow up, Ammon will create a force 6 polarized ward on the entrance to the warehouse, in addition to the standard ward in the office area of the warehouse. This might provide so tactical advantage should the warehouse come under siege... though perhaps hot..

6,4,3,6,1,5,5,6,2,3,3 = 5 hits.
Threshold 3 for first week. 2 additional hits gives it a 3 week lifespan.

So...

Is it time for a funeral or resuscitation?

Definite resuscitation ;D

Alright boys and girls, massive apologies for the two weeks or so of silence. My Real Life™ schedule got bumped a bit, so I'm currently cramming two semesters worth of upper division classes into this fall. 34 credits, boys and girls, read 'em and weep.

However, now that the initial rush of crashing classes and sorting out my schedule is over, I should be able to keep things moving again.

I'm writing the IC post now, so I'll be back here posting again shortly to bring the mechanics up to date and moving things forward.

It appears that the GM got eaten while writing that post

I spoke with him last night, he's still writing...basically he is trying to get both sides of the moon posted at the same time--if you're following both threads, there's going to be a bit of cross-over to coordinate

6 pages so far >.< My apologies, it's taking longer to write up all the action then I had anticipated. Look for it to go up today or tomorrow, with use trying to get things back in motion on Monday.

6 pages? Wow! Now that's some post.

Alright, so, the post is up. It's pretty beefy, and yeah, topped at at 6 8.5x11 pages at 12 pt font >.<

You guys have the prototype, as far as you can tell the target company is none the wiser, and you're back at the warehouse. I assume the next week (ending Sept. 30th) will be everyone spending cash, buying gear, and figuring out what you want your next step to be.

Everyone can take an extra 4 karma in addition to the weekly drip.

Questions?

please feel free to comment if you don't think I played your character correctly, I can always use the tips for next time I have to bump things forward.

Looks good. Thanks for the detailed story about the catch-up.

84k/6 = 14k each. Did we have any expenses?
Ammon has four bound spirits. It appears one service from two of the spirits were used?

I calculate 17 total karma to this point. I'll be PM'ing about spending some of that soon.

Redjack - No additional expenses, and one service each is correct.

Ok. We have a safehouse. We have some operating expenses. Shall we begin legwork on Thermo-Optic Plastics? Probably been about a week since Lucky's failed attempt to check them out.

Do we need more gear?

Depending on the gear list people are after, it may be stuff that we can acquire with the funds we just earned.

I think legwork on TOP would be a great plan at this point. If people need stuff from Widget, let me know. Buddha asked me to roll dice for his characters until he makes it back.

For Hiver, I'm here to kill the bad guys and patch up the good guys. I don't have many of the skills or contacts that support legwork.

So how's this for a plan for the legwork:
1) Ammon will perform a very conservative recon of the facility. Starting with slow wide spiral, moving inward watching for spirits, watchers, astral patrols and checking for wards if he can get close enough.
2) Widget, Hiver, Billy & Vertigo make a physical recon. Widget performing signal scans, map out cameras; Hiver, Vertigo & Billy map out physical security, routes in/out, guard shift changes, contractors onsight (cleaning, maintenance, security company, etc)


Anyone have any contacts to find out any information about the company or their contractors?

I think if we do this right we should be able to get in, pull a shift, have Vertigo take what we need from the servers and get out no one the wiser. We should have a stolen van parked someplace nearby right before the run as a back escape route.

How's this for a first pass?

Here are some rolls for Ammon. Not sure what you need. Use what is required, ignore the rest.

Perception Visual(Flare Comp, Low Light, Smartlink, Thermo, Vision Enh 3, Vision Mag)
[3,5,4,6,6,1,4,5,1,6] = 5 hits


Perception Aural (Audio Enh 3, Balance Augmenter, Damper,
Select Sound Filter 4, Spatial Recognizer)
[1,4,2,1,6,5,5,3,5,1] = 4 hits
[5,4,1,4] = 1 additional hit if Sound Filter applies

Alright boys and girls, it has become painfully obvious to me over the last two weeks that there's no way I'm going to juggle 34 units at University and still run my threads on the board, in addition to studying for the GMAT and still maintaining any kind of social life with family and friends.

So, no offense intended, but you guys are lowest priority on my list. I'm going to go ahead and end the games for the moment. If you're all still interested, I'll have a lot more time after the semester ends (mid-December), so I'll probably check in with you individually to see if you want to revive the threads.

I'm sorry to have to do this, I honestly thought I'd be able to keep the threads running throughout. However, you guys made very excellent, memorable characters, and I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to do more with them. I hope you'll all come back when I re-instate the threads in a few months.

Fenris: I'm sure sorry to hear it, but I can certainly appreciate your situation. School is monopolizing all of my time as well. So no hard feelings, here! Good luck!!