Back. Everyone's recovered by now, although Alysha's mornign sickness has let her mostly permanently nauses it seems.

I didn't realize that she was expecting! Congrats!

O yeah, thought I told you. oops/ Twins! yikes!

In case you missed it. I posted a few weeks ago.

Gear bringing along :

Steyr w/ Ex-Ex

Predator w/ 2 clips gel, 2 clips ExEx, and the silencer

Ingram smartgun in the hardcase saddle bags + spare clips

2 flash grenades, one gas grenade

Colt in the arm slide

Armored Jacket
SMall bag:
Cyberware Scanner R 4
Laser Mic 4
Directional Mic
Olfactory sensor 4
3 micro cams
3 micro-mics

Autopicker Rating 6
Cellular Glove molder rating 3
Key card Copier Rating 4
sequencer Rating 4
wire clippers


Medkit
Geckotape gloves

I thought I'd purchased shock gloves, but was apparently wrong. oops

Thx.

BTW: You are up in IC.

You still in this game?
IC

Ok. Your move. Feel free to talk through it in IC. You never know where that may get you.

Defaulting Test to search for PANs - Logic -1 = 2
- 2 Hits!

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1587446/
2d6.vs(5) → [5,6] = (2)

Sorry it took me a while to reply. Took me a while to research this one to be sure:
All computer skills are Program + Skill. Attributes do not play a part. Defaulting without a skill would be to the program. If you do not have either, defaulting is not possible.

That was a great roll though.
Let me try a different route to help you

Let me make sure I'm understanding this first; if you don't have aprogram, then you cannot do anything on the matrix?

pg 124-124 Computers, Hacking, and Data Search all allow Default.

pg 208 - Matrix Tests, says that ou use Attribute+ Skill, except that you substitute the program for the attribute.

But it makes no sense that you couldn't do anything without a program. I mean, do you really need a program to browse through a list of files off a computer, or analyze to look at what it does? Perhaps I'm missing something , but that just doesn't seem logcail to me.

You cannot do the task the program provides without the program.

Yes.. but in this condition you are simply defaulting to the program, not an attribute.

You don't substitute it, "you use an appropriate device or program attribute in place of your character's attribute". The character's attribute is never part of the equation here. [see next response]

How can it not make sense? Ok, here are a few examples. Take your computer and connect to the Internet. Now check the forum, but you cannot use a web browser.... Search Google, but again, no web browser. If you do not have a program for the task, it is impossible to perform the task.

Alright, screw it, not going to bother. How 'bout this... the buiding is only su big, and apparently Billy knows drek all about computers anyway. So... go to plan B and stroll down the halls with Select Sounder Filter and Audio Enhancer, listening for two women and a man doin 'business'. That'll at least nearrow it down. If the guy's a runner, he'll probably have better security than the building norm, so those two factors together should narrow down the search. And if one of the Chica's PANs is still active in the area, we might run into an area where it's active.