Visable? Lucky man.

If it gets overgrown with hair you guys are in deep dark doo doo.

Anyone making an attempt to take a weapon with them should indicate it here and then post your rolls.

It would seem that RL has been kicking some major butt this past week. I'll post IC tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. Just want to give people some time to post.

I've been having issues with DS not letting me login this week. IC post will be up shortly.

Make Perception checks against a threshold of 2.

Rolling 5,1,4,2,4,5,6 nice 3 hits! Though I should've added my vison Mag for a +1.

You beat the threshold, no worries.

Threshold 2 Perception test.

Are we still good? Just touching base. If RL on your end is like mine, I completely understand. Just touching base.

*Looks at RL Sched*

Lesse I've got getting up at 4:30 in the Freaking AM to get to my temporary company for 5:30, of course they may not even HAVE a job for me that day. And they refuse to send any one out over the phone. "We have people walking in from over an hour away"

Like hell they do!

I'm a wage slave dammit. Little more than two years left till the Sixth world. I'm soooooo ready, any time now.

Sorry for the disappearing act. Work and RL collided and I was the casualty.

I think we all have been victims of the evils of RL the past bit. I'll add in an IC post and will have to assume that the rest of the team is there fore the time being.

Anybody else out there that is still able to play?

I suppose I'm still able to play. I dunno, maybe a new venue would get us interested again? (Much as I hate to drop a good plot line before it gets started.) Though PbP is my ONLY gaming anymore. *Shrug*

(Though Alex, if you're looking for new places to set games I highly recommend reading River of Gods by Ian McDonald. Cyberpunk India I tell you one thing though. My next char is so speaking Hindi, it's almost as much fun to swear in as Chinese.)

Double

Glad to have you on board.

Let the questions roll.

Back from the dead Real Life. Sorry guys. Change in shift schedule and life in general have kept me abnormally busy. I'll either be more diligent in the future, or at least give you a heads up before I have to drop off the face of the earth.

SinN's post is kinda long and Flash isn't going to let him continue to derail the negotiations. (I realize that is Chester's personality; This is Flash's)

Haha its all good bro. I enjoy the personalities clashing. Ive had worse charactors than this as far as uncouth personalities go. Just as fisty.
Ill keep him quiet for now so we can get negotiations running.

@ Flash

I'll activate kinesics and roll for Perception to see how truthful our Johnson is.

Rolling 3,2,1,6,2,4,3,6,6 Two hits, both sixes, nice!

@ Meriss

So the big question now is the contents of the packet.

@ Redjack

@Alex

@Redjack

Chester certainly fits the bill of the uppity young mage that's full of himself. SinN, do you have the "braggart" flaw by chance?

Haha
Well Hes a young mage who happens to be going through puberty while raising his 6 year old sister. I figured hes gonna have his bad days here and there. My inspiration for this particular char and line comes from the early days of Sin. Ah how i miss that charactor.

Fidures. No problem, it really wouldn't make any sense if everyone was the consumate professional. That's why it's nice to have Flash.

I'd try bargaining or something, but since I came light , I figured I'd just post as matrix overwatch/peanut gallery.

Can we perhaps get the details from the folder while we wait?

As they are paper, your team mates will have to share them, or image link them, or something.

Assuming you rule that the Vision Enhancement/Smartlink on his contacts facilitate video input, he will share the feed into TeamNet.

That sounds fine to me.

Oh Steve likes to think he is a pro but he is in many ways still playing catch up. Plus burglery and truck lifting is what he is used to. As well as the now and then short con.

@Alex: Did you get my perception roll?

I believe so. Did you see the note I put in the spoiler tags under the call for perception test or are you referring to something else I am being a dunderhead?

Sorry for the deley. RJ and I are dealing with all these DS issues. Haven't had a lot of time for other things online. Seems to be slightly slowing though.

I is the dunder head. I missed your post Gracias.

Though I did post a Perception/Kinesics roll to see if Miss Johnson is truthful. Didn't I or did I think about it and then forget?

EDIT: Nevermind. Comments on my stupidity are accepted with appreciation.

GM's note: Just so you know, she is being a bit coy on purpose.

What else do ya need?

Of course. Doesn't mean that we don't want to kick her in the head.

I completely understand that.

I'll wait a little more IC before they move on. Anything else?

I just want a little more detail about this.

Of course, for the price offered, we're getting good money for what seems relatively simple.

That, of course, is why I'm worried. "Cake run" = Nasty Surprise

I'd like to know before we agree if there's something we should know about this kid. I didn't notice if they'd given the targets name yet. Would be nice to run a matrix search

I completely get that. "Nasty" is always waiting to take you down. No, they haven't mentioned a name yet.

Are you looking for IC or OOC info?

Waiting to see what's in the envelope, so we have some idea of what we're going on.

I can understand not getting the name before we agree to do the job, so as to not tip the target if we decide to walk and double cross them. That's cool. but if that's the case, then we should have enough info to have some idea of what we're actually getting into/going up against to makesome sort of informed decision.

Way I read it, we could be going against anythign from a Super-geek with a good computer system, to Damien Knightt's Love child, who has daddy's programming knack. 'cause they've given us 0 informatino so far (the packet still being an unknown), and that's not enough to get me to say 'yes', especially with the pay this good.

Sooo.... what's in the packet?

The packet contains a high quality full color photograph (good likeness) with an old school 2-D 'hologram' (a pretty terrible likeness). Included is a class schedule full of notes and a second schedule that appears to be of personal activities. There is also a list of known screen-names as well as a slightly larger secondary list of assumed screen-names. There is also a list of known associates with small pictures next to each.

There is also a simple bio and a small optical chip in the envelope. No one has had the chance to read it yet.

Threading Facial recognition program

Results:3 5 2 5 2 6 5 4 5 3
HITS:5
- Run it up to Rating III, since that's the max listed in Arsenal

Fading

Results:4 1 1 1 2 2 3 4
HITS:0
Ouch 3 stun

Run the pic provided against a class roster/yearbook from last year, assuming that since they're not freshman, he was here the previous year.

Browse + Datasearch
Results:5 1 3 1 3 1 1 6
HITS:2
GLITCH!
(reroll failures) 4 4 6 4 5 1
TOTAL HITS:4

Man I just shouldn't roll today apparently. Had to use edge for a basic freaking search. Err.. two hits that edge would be used to negate the glitch. Crap-O.

@Sin: I just realized my last IC to Flash came off rather harsh. Sorries.

@ALL: We done or should we try and up the payday?

@Fist: I hesitate to ask due to professional considerations, but Steve doesn't know any better. Also I don't want you burning more edge than you have too. How much info you suppose the PTBs/GM would give us?

Well I'm limiting my search to one turn , simply beacuse I don't want to waste time trying to make you wait while I data dump to you. The Js woudl certainly wonder why everyone was sitting around reading the air and pickign theri noses. I'm just trying to give more bargaining tools, and give us a better idea of what we're getting into.

Data Search Results:

Timothy R. Stevens has been published in a few peer review journals and as far as you can tell, he hasn't paid for the privilege like so many these days. For as reliable as social networking sites are, he is dating a junior named Melody - no last name. He has sponsored a number of student government reforms and seems to have some pull outside of campus politics.

He is opposed by the fraternal (Greek) organizations on campus since he is a GDI from their point of view.

He is scheduled to start a new programming project with backing from Saeder-Krupp. It looks to bring a massive amount of investment to the area which may explain why even politicians outside of campus are schmoozing him.

Double Bingo

Care to share your insight Fist?

Or Am I missing something? Though it could simply be a continuation of High school anti geek ism. (That is soooo not English)

Or are you thinking Miss J has an S-K connect? No no wait, who's a S-K opponent agin?

Anyone object to me trying for 6K?

I'm throwing in a Con roll. 6,4,3,3,6,6,5,5,2,3,5,4 Six hits.

No I'm guessing that the "Greek Organization" is the interests that the Js are representing, for whatever reason, while the S-K connection (always notorious in the shadows) and the research he's doing, are the reason for the big pay out.

Just a guess.

Negotiation:
Charisma(3) + Negotiation(1) + Pheromones(2) + Local Fame(2) : [1,1,1,1,1,4,6,5] = 2 hits + Glitch


Some days just suck...

Perhaps little fish in a big pond: He took somebody's contract..?

Hey Meriss, Ithink you made a bit of a snaffoo.

You're negotiating for 6K, but you posted it as 6K total. They're offering 5K up front, and 10K after the deal, for a total of 15K.

RJ, I feel your pain (see : threading and data search )

Edit: RJ looks like we posted at the same time. Too bad I wasn't a second faster to prompt you for more data.