Yeah yeah, that.

So there is no confusion Ule can you edit your post? Not sure where you got the psychotropic IC ting from.

Uh, just his knowledge check. He was browsing conspiracy theories, read that one about a game, clicked through a couple of more links, saw the guys name on a high score sheet.

@shadow: Is neural rejection something common in the sixth world? I mean, should Uleso know what it is, just as common knowledge?

Gray

Perception 3 (+2 visual) + 4 Inutition = 9 dice.

2 Hits.

Its a genetic flaw that prevents people from getting any kind of cyber, they have to use AR for everything.

Shit, I can barely type up an IC, I'm laughing so damn hard

@everyone: Who's closest?

Yeah, this is good stuff. I don't really care who is closest, but I'm going to assume its not Piece.

Speaking of monies. Starting cash (I never rolled)
4d6+12 = 21 (#D=4 : 1215)
21x500 (high lifestyle) = 10,500

So, the addition of the 2,000 (assuming whoever steps up to being closest forks over Piece's share) brings his total to 12,500

Eep, money rolls I'll do later. For now, I'm gonna roll data browse to find some intel on the guy J0nus wants us to locate.

Once shadow gives me an interval that is. And explains exactly how Extended Tests work.

Not sure if he'll have any special rules for his game... but typically, you're goign to be rolling computer+data search.

The interval should depend on where the information is compared to you. If you were on his commlink, it would be "same device" and have an interval in initiative passes, if you were in the same network (perhaps logging into the game they play, or meeting up with him in one of his matrix hangouts) it would be in combat rounds... .more than likely, though, since we have no where better to start, it will be "Entire matrix" which has an interval in minutes.

The threshhold depends on the difficulty of the information (Easy, Average, Hard or Extreme). I'm guessing that since he's a famous hot-shot like this guy, getting more information about him should be Easy, but getting PERSONAL information about him will be Hard or even Extreme depending on how careful he is to cover his tracks. Still, if he has won awards, or money, or whatever, there must be data linking his online handle to his real life SIN or location somewhere in the matrix.

So, what I usually do, is assume the worst (threshold 16)... and just start rolling a handfull of rolls (until I rack up 16 hits). Chances are, you'll be spending a while doing this, but probably no more than 15 minutes (well within our time frame). Going VR won't speed this up, so you might as well be AR - and still listening in to the conversation.

The rest of us can finish up the details of the job, while you start this part, cause it is likely to be the most time consuming.

You can also rush the job, cutting the time taken in half, but then you need to counts 2's for Glitch purposes as well.

Oh, I didn't know you could do that, but that's a cool option.

Yep. Page 59 in SR4.

I suppose Piece is listening for sounds of assent, but I doubt he will hear them.
Intuition 3 -1 defaulting +3 actively searching = 5 dice
Roll 1: 2 hits (#D=5 : 12625 n1=1 n6=1 nHit=2)

Shock and surprise! So, maybe I do hear something. If its normal, grunting, farting, flushing, faucet running, etc... that's cool.
If I don't hear anything in a few seconds, or hear him saying he's stuck or something, Piece is probably going in.

Gray wil Assense J0nus Blain3 when he comes back.

Intuition 4 + Assensing 3 = 7 dice.

Roll 1 -->2 hits (6243163)

Just covering bases. I'm sure he's not a toxic spirit or anything, but you never know.

Lol at the last IC remark. i thought about mentioning the same thing OOC.

I'm not really sure what their AR game is like (maybe they have to physically meet up in one hour to play), but if it is played over the matrix, using AR then he could live anywhere in the world. If he even lives in the UCAS, on the off chance he lives in Seattle, unless he also lives in Belleview, he's probably out of our reach in 40 minutes. If he lives that close by (or if they physically meet to play the game) chances are our boss knows who he is, and wouldn't have said we had to track him down.

So, OOC, I'm thinking we're boned - although we could get more information that makes it doable.

What we really need is a dedicated hacker, who can fry him online from anywhere. None of this rigger wannabe nonsense.

Well I think a Rigger wannabee can engineer a localized brown out, don't you? Even remotely, if the dude is in Moscow or some such place. Just enough to take the game server down in that region. If utillity repair service keeps "improving" at the rate it has even in my lifetime, by 2070 it will take them 3 days to fix it.

About the only thing I can think of right now... if the guy is 1000's of miles away, is that Gray can go astral, spy on the guy and give Stinky insider info. But you can't even read a vid screen from Astral Space, so I'm not sure how valuable that will be.

stun-bolt the crap out of him so he's playing at -4 to his dice pools? or passes out mid-game?

I only got Stunball, but it should work.

Yeah, I think if it is a matter of making this guy lose - even from the other side of the planet, we could probably arrange something, if pressed, and if money is of little object.
Getting the information on the target in time to make any use of it might be a whole other matter - except that by RAW, even a novice computer user could dig up a hacker's darkest secrets in 15 minutes - probably less if he used a mediocre agent program.

About extended tess, what Black missed is that you only get your Dice pool in tries to do it. So if your DP is 8 dice, you roll them 8 times, if you don't get it done in that many rolls, you don't get it done. And yes, the interval is in minutes. Each roll of the DP is one minute.


@ Gray