Hi!

Fortune - No you handle your damage mods based on your own wares. I'll just give you your base such as with Crit earlier.

Calldisu - yup, them speed boys have extra IPs. It's a Wired worled my friend. Wait ... no it's wireless... wait ... but they have wires... but it's wireless *wanders off into paradox*

That's cool, thanks.

Welcome.

I wanted to start this game off with an action/dice rolling scene to get a few things out of hte way. First, I hate starting games with a meet, as it's like starting with a staf infection. It just seems to kill everthing it gets a solid grip on.

Second, I've ran a game with Callidus, so he knows a bit of what to expect from me. The rest of you, not so much. So I wanted a chance for everyone to have some idea of what to expect, both from my style and each others. Feedback is appreciated and encouraged, even if you don't agree with how I handle something. I might not change how I handle something, but I'd rather you speak up than be quietly upset.

This isn't in response to anything. Just a general 'so ya' know'.

Ouch!

Actually, not all that bad. with the 1P/1S he previously took, this makes it 4P/2S, for a -1 modifier.

Someone's gonna die!

Posting ...

Action is good! More action! This is a ganger game, after all!

Edit: Actually, I have a bit of a problem with changing the Warhawk from SA to SS (and Claymore owns and uses Warhawks fairly often!). It's already the best heavy pistol as far as damage is concerned, and that one single drawback gives it a bit of flavor. All revolvers are SS in Shadowrun, and always have been.

So, I figure the first shot is a Simple Action by itself as normal, and the second shot is a shared Simple Action with the throw (similar to dual wielding) with a split Dice Pool for each action. Let me know what you think.

I'm just having trouble keeping up and rollign with a few of the calls 'cause I'm still pretty new to the system -- so I'm trying to be all nerdcore "by the book" and when I get a curveball tossed at me I'm forced to question my faith in my (already limited) understanding of the rules.

So all my "wait, I thought I could have more knives!" and "wait, that gun's SS!" and stuff is just me making decisions based on what's in front of me, and then having those decisions kind of backfire. I specifically went for the knives because I "knew" I could ready Reaction/2 of them, and throw them for Simple Actions, whereas I "knew" my handgun was SS only -- and then, instead, I got to ready one knife, and a bad guy got to shoot that same handgun at me twice, y'know? I'm already rocky on how stuff works and trying to make the best decisions I can to keep characters alive, yadda yadda yadda, and then when stuff gets flip-flopped on me like that it's a little irritating.

But...*shrugs* Whatever. I'm here to play, and I'm not dead yet or anything. So I'll just go murder trolls with my sword and call it a good day.

Edited my IC spoiler to include rolls.

Must remember to just leave Increase Reflexes running at all times.... Must remember to just leave Increase Reflexes running at all times.... *8->

That's the number one reason I almost never use the Spell version of Initiative enhancement. It's just so damn inconvenient.

Fortune, Crit, I hear you guys. I'll stick to the rules and not so much 'fast and loose' for you Sorry to throw you off.

3 down, but I'm thinking that Claymore can't keep this up for much longer.

Here's hoping that's number 4. I hate to leave one just pissed off and with a knife in his neck, but (1) it seemed like overkill to Charge him if he's already that hurt, and (2) I don't know how much it sucks to be two-on-one in a melee in SR4, but I know the modifiers could quickly buttrape you in SR3 so it's my reflex to dogpile in if a buddy's in a lopsided brawl.

Claymore has one more pass this turn as well, but I'll wait to see how hurt he is before I post IC.

More senseless chatter might serve to attract the attention of our illustrious GM.

Anyone got any big holiday plans? I'm finally getting a day off (we get 6 paid holidays a year, and I have to work 4 of them) and then I'm getting an unpaid day off the day [i]after[/] the holiday (because some corporate bigwig wants to "save money" by making us all stay home).

So, yeah. Four day weekend! Woo!

Pretty much same old, same old for me. No plans, great or small.

Me an' the missus are exchanging gifts (how lucky am I to have a wife that likes it when I get her comics for Christmas?), and taking the drive to visit my mom and stepdad -- other than that, yeah. She's not even off work or anything (being a nurse). I'm just glad to finally get a paid holiday like a normal schmuck, and to have two extra days to lounge around and...

...hrm. I was gonna say "play whatever video games and watch whatever dvds I get" but I guess I should probably get some more writing done instead. Every little four-cents-a-word will add up, to help pay off these gift-giving debts.

Bah! Relax and have an actual holiday and feed your inspiration.

Heh, suddenly I feel very happy that my company boots us all out over the holidays, company shut today and doesn't open up again until the 2nd Jan, so I got loads of time to hang about and post *8->

So ... ouchies, but not as bad as it could be.

Not to get ahead of myself or anything, but ...

Initiative

Zounds, Combat Sense adds to Initiative, too? I thought it was a must-have before (but forced myself not to take it), but...wow.

Hmmm ... Now that I look it up, it doesn't add to Initiative tests at all. I don't know where my brain is lately.

Needless to say, I have since edited the previous post.

Adds to surprise tests, which are initiative tests in which you count the successes, basically. So... you were close.

Chris

Yes I know what it does. I always have known what it does. It's just that someone stole my brain while I was posting.

Yeah, after that post and then rereading the IC one I picked up on it better. For some reason I thought you'd shot and ran at the same one, which threw me off.

And, well, yeah. That's why I wanted one alive, too. I just figured someone should actually think/say it IC, not just all of us smart guys hanging out OOC and knowing what comes next.

Ok cool. It would have been kind of ironic to screw up the numbers in a post which starts with "Claymore never forgets to count."

Damm you all to hell. Makin elves look cool. In public too. Have you no shame left.


enjoyin lurkin though

Elves are always cool!

My user folder on SL is titled "When Elves Attack" for a reason. Making Elves look cool is kind of what I do in Shadowrun.

Irony -
The one with the spike in the neck is still alive. Crit/Tain bypassed him to assist with the axe wielding troll.

The one tosse from the bike is sitll alive and in very bad shape.

I've been using the Invisible Castle dice roller for the most part, and have decided that ti hates trolls too. Almost all the rolls have come up either 1 Hit or three hit, only Edge keeping the fight going as long as it has. You guys were fated to wipe the floor iwth these guys apparently.

Today was my last day of an AM shift. Switching to grave yards 4 days a week from here on out. Holidays are over. I'm pretty much out of excusses. Thank God.

Well, except that the lovely wife person got my KOTOR2, so I ran out and got KOTOR 1, neither of which I have ever played. Good times.

will post to your rolls as soon as I get my laptop up. (Alysha's sleeping and it's in the other room ).

over all though, obviously beat the troll's initiative. I just need to check Crit's rolls, and only my laptop agrees with Shadowland. This one should be over soon.

Misunderstood, thought you were saying there was only one left.

Nope. I can count.

Goddamnit. Deleted the almost done post. Gimme a few more minutes.

Oops! I hate when that happens.

I had it happen once on my mafia game IWTF. Did this huge write up for a security corp's packages it was offering. Big ass post. Lost the whole damn thing. I yelled a lot. This was just annoying in comparison.

To all: thanks for sticking with me during my slow spot here. I really want this game to continue As I'e had a couple others die offf, in no small part to my own lacking, I really want this one to go through proper like.

Callidus, gonna be needing you here boy-o. I'll drop you a PM as well.

Now I'm confused!

As far as I know, this is how the battle has gone.

- Troll #1 - Unknown weaponry - Died first after Claymore went through window
- Troll #2 - Heavy Pistol - Died second with two shots to the head.
- Troll #3 - Spiked Chain - Just died at end of last turn under the dual assault of Claymore and Tain
- Troll #4 - Mossberg Assault Shotgun/ Combat Axe - Leader - Tain toasted him with his sword
- Troll #5 - Sawed off Remington 990 - Grenade blew him from bike - still alive as of round 2
- Troll #6 - Super Warhawk - Hit by spikes from Tain - just fired upon by Claymore - still alive as of round 2

So, what the hell is going on with your post?

Troll #6 and Troll #2 are where we're misunderstanding each other then. My understanding was that you were firing on "the Ruger" troll. The Heavy Pistol guy wasn't carrying a ruger. I think from now on, in the spoilers, we'll have to include the Target # (i.e. Troll #2) . That'll make things good and clear.
Again, this is why we'r estarting out with combat. Work out the kinks.

I still don't understand. We are now (with Critias' and my last IC posts) at the beginning of round 2. There is only one troll standing (#6) and one troll smoking in a heap (#5). The rest are dead. Why would I fire on anyone other than the single, still standing target (#6)? Troll #2 was killed during the second phase of the first round (Claymore's second target), so isn't really a viable target. There are only two trolls alive (#5 and #6), both wounded, #5 with a spike in his neck (and a brand new gunshot wound from this last action), and #6 is (as you said earlier) in a bad way from the grenade blast.

Then I misunderstood which one your target was at some point. #5 would die from the next shot, leaving the viable survivor as the troll that got hit by the grenade.
He's heavily damaged, and torn up, but holding steady at the damage he's at.

That work?

#6 will die with the gunshot.

#5 is the smoking heap ... which is where Claymore is currently headed.

Don't sweat it ... it's cool. I have been sitting here re-reading the thread for weeks in preparation for the next post, so have a slight advantage over you, who actually have a real life.

Thankfully I think mine will be a bit more organized now. A big part of the issue I think is only being able to look at it breifly once a week or so. I've had problems like this (difference inplaying styles, how people like to wrok things out, etc) come up in other games before. WHich is why I figured it best to get through that particular growing pain right away.

So, you going to edit the IC post, or what?

Yeah s'pose I should get 'round to that.

Today?

Done
But now I'm logging off for the night. WOuldn't want you to get spoiled.

No work tomorrow. WIll check in then.
smooches!

Ah, the lazy edit ... you forgot to fix the spoiler.

Now we just have to wait for Callidus.