*Grin and nod*

Edit: Or rather, I'm feeling a bit overdressed for Step. Step would actually be the sort of person to overdress for something to make herself stand out. She does after all have a deep seeded belief that she is in fact better than everyone else

Flash is in a suit as well. His style is either hide out loud or deep in the shadows; Little in between.

Yeah, so he looks like a wageslave like everyone else in the place

At least in this environment Flash is unlikely to mistake Step for a courtesan

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Thanee

Oh yea. Gonna ride that wave.

And continuing the mistaken identity theme...

I'm loving this. I'll let you guys continue for a bit before I post IC. Have fun with it - plus it will let our stragglers post.

Step's hopes for this job will go right down the drain when she realizes that the ork and troll are supposed to be part of her team.

Just as a reminder, Angel is currently a red headed human. Despite the fact she's thinking in quasi Spanish, her English is pure Alabama.

Good to know.

In fact, I think some of the characters don't even have a description posted somewhere here (or I couldn't find one). I have seen the picture, Redjack has provided for his char, but apart from that it is mostly some descriptive fragments from the IC.

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Thanee

For Angel, think Natalie Martinez as she appeared in Death Race. With pointy ears.

For anyone who hasn't seen Flash, here he is.

EDIT:
Natalie Martinez as she appeared in Death Race

Angel's hair might be a little lighter than that. If and when you ever see the real her

Right now Kirsten Dunst is the only young redhead I can think off.

MITNick - dirty blonde haired dwarf sporting a goatee, hair cut short. Wearing a Screamers jacket and munching on an eggroll, or a cigar, or something. Nody language tends to be more pulled in and isolated, not looking many people in the eye. Keeps to himself type.

Ludo's description:

Ludo

Hmm, yes, seems I haven't provided any sort of description for Step and yet Zyerne managed to get the general gist of her appearance

Yep, being more on the skinny side certainly makes sense with those physical stats.

@Zyerne: Maybe Simone Simons fits your bill?

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Thanee

Some Assensing rolls...

Angel 1 hit
Flash 2 hits
Ludo 1 hit
MITNick 2 hits
Step 2 hits
Mr. Johnson 0 hits

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Thanee

Ludo:

- warm, healthy glow
- calm emotional aura with small patches of nervousness that are fading away like bruises
- Awakened

@Karoline: Low physical stats was what I remembered. Given that 'cute' is in the eye of the beholder, the rest seemed like a pretty good guess. Step is actually only 1 point behind Raven in the physical attributes department. Although Raven's are apparently more obvious

@Thanee: To my knowledge, never listened to Dutch metal or symphonic metal before. Interesting.. As to the lady in question, she looks like a good fit. Hair is right, which is important, there are no 'change hairlength' powers.

@Alex: I hadn't, until just now, considered Assensing vs Facial Sculpt. Do I need a disguise roll? What about Melanin Control?

@Redjack: Thanee's assensing rolls made me realise something I hadn't conciously noticed before. Replace 'Good Guys' with 'Mundanes' and I think this could be Flash's song

It's somewhat similar to Nightwish, which would be the most prominent band of this style.



I don't think these have any effect on the aura at all. That would require the Masking Metamagics.

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Thanee

Yep, that was exactly when I also noticed that.

Flash is the only non-Magic, non-Resonance character (at least I suppose so).

BTW, does Flash have any standard (not alphaware) cyber?

Or does Raven see 3 complete mundanes there (the 2 TMs and potentially Flash)?

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Thanee

Melanin Control wouldn't, thinking about it, as you can't tell ethnicity with Assensing as far as I'm aware. What I'm not so sure about is whether Angel has an 'Elven' aura despite her current appearance. Masking mentions appearing as another form of Astral 'creature' which I don't think the metatypes count as and Assensing mentions recognising auras through physical disguises. Facial sculpt is essentially a magical, physical, disguise.

It's magic... but the effect is physical (it changes your physical appearance, it is surely not a "Mana" effect), and that is what matters.

I'm not even sure a spell like Mask (the Mana version) would work in astral space... while it does not actually change you, as it messes with the perception of others, it does not specifically change your aura, but rather your physical appearance. And that is not what one sees via Assensing.

So, even if your physical appearance is that of a human, in astral space you would be visible as an elf (unless you know Masking Metamagic, then you can do something about that). Though, maybe you would need some detailed observation (i.e. Assensing), in order to discern that from the aura, as it might not be immediately obvious.

BTW, does SR4A actually say anywhere what auras look like? I couldn't find anything about that...

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Thanee

It would help if somewhere on the Assensing table it listed 'metatype'. Same goes for Masking for that matter.

Anyway...

Certainly, she'd look like an Elf if she was projecting. Auras are a little more grey, at least by my reading of things.

I'm likely going to have to make a ruling of my own on this as one of my players also has facial sculpt. Unless there's some Assening vs Disguise rules I'm missing, but a repeated rereading hasn't thrown any up.

Assensing results for Flash: Happy, healthy, drug free, mundane. The only cyberware is a very small amount of headware.

Step's assessing results:Healthy but annoyed uncybered mundane

Damn, I love playing with a group that can basically answer their own questions. Thank you all. Please accept 1 karma and 3 contact points for that. I'll let you know when you can spend it.

As to the ruling on Assensing vs. Facial Sculpt:
I would rule that it is a magical disguise and therefore not helpful against assensing. However, the interpretation of that is up to the mage in question. Do they assume the physical is the mask or the astral or both.

If that doesn't complete answer it, let me know.

Oh, anyone who tries to assense the old man gets bupkis. I don't mean, you see a vanilla mundane, I mean you don't get anything.

Ettiquette or negotiation, as applicable. 12d6.hits(5)=4

To throw another spanner in the works, kinesics this time..



In the meantime, Angel is definately Awakened

Hehehe - I was just thinking about typing up a reply, accepting the offer, when I saw your post Zyerne...maybe I can work that in to an IC post

I don't think auras show metatype, and while astral form will likely look like your own metatype, it won't nessicarily. An Elf poser for example might think of themselves as being an Elf on the inside, and thus their astral form would look like an Elf instead of a Human.

Edit: I just realized that we're in Alabama but no one has a southern accent it seems. Guess we're all out of towners

threading scan (11d6.hits(5)=6) using 3 hits
resisting fading (11d6.hits(5)=3) no fading
Scanning for hidden nodes (14d6.hits(5)=7)
Scanning for hidden nodes (13d6.hits(5)=4)
Scanning for hidden nodes (12d6.hits(5)=2)
Scanning for hidden nodes (11d6.hits(5)=5)
Scanning for hidden nodes (10d6.hits(5)=3)
Scanning for hidden nodes (9d6.hits(5)=3)
Total hits = 24
Time taken = 6 seconds

After that she'll switch back out of VR so she can pay better attention

Angel does, I'm just not writing one. I'm going to have enough trouble throwing in the occassional Spanish without writing Southern too.

Edit: Angel can have any accent she feels like but does have a natural Alabama one that she's using now. When I start throwing in the odd bit of Spanish, she's speaking with her 'real' accent.

John aka Flash is definitely a local. Kinda hard to post the southern drawl. Irish or cockney are much easier.

Charisma(3) + Pheromones(2) + Negotiation(1) [2,2,3,5,6,4] = 2 hits
Assuming Angel's skill is 2+, take 2 additional dice.

Teamwork dice from Flash [1,3] = 0 additional hits.

Oh well..

Funny as the Charlies Elves comment was, I think there's only one of them. Currently.

Aren't Angel, Raven & Step all elves?

Step is, Raven is human and Angel is currently masquerading as a human.

I can see I'm going to have to add in a current appearance line for each post

What yall talkin' 'bout? Tain't hard ta post a good ol' southern drawl, ya jus gots ta get inta character is all. Course, helps ta have a heapin' pile o' experince wit it.

Edit: Wanting to know about any interesting nodes the J or restaurant have before posting.

I would say that the "Flo" southern accent is as stereo typical as say Eubonics (and equally present mostly in pocket subcultures), but Pink Mohawk is about stereo types I guess.

Redjack is going to have to suffer my attempt at a Southern accent elsewhere, I'm not going to subject him to it twice

I'm actually a Londoner and I wouldn't dream of attempting a cockney one.

I wasn't trying to persuade you not to use it. Just making a casual reference. Personally, country metaphors are a more common distinguishing trait where I live than a slow drawl, but we all love a southern belle with a slow drawl... and it does add flavor (belle or beau).

It was more I don't want to be writing it (badly) twice. You'll get Spanish from Angel and "Texan" from Alice.

Yep. Nothing elvish to see here.

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Thanee

@Alex: Because everyone has different views on that subject...

How would we classify the pay (4k) for such a job?

Is that a typical rate?
Or more than one would expect for a seemingly (so far) simple job?

Not that such jobs ever are simple...

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Thanee

P.S. Southern accent? Alas, that is not on my skill list. I basically only know about Y'all.

Lots of things to catch up on so here we go:

Re: Matrix nodes
As the elevator finishes its cycle, almost all nodes disappear. All that are left are the various commlinks from the team. There seems to be a very high end node near the Johnson. It seems like much more than the standard commmlink. In fact, it doesn't look like a commlink at all.

Re: Payment
For a group of 350BP street runners, this is good change. Sure you could boost cars for a bigger payday on a monthly basis; however, cars are more likely to get NOTICED where as most shadow runs go UNNOTICED and officially ignored. It is a good starting point. If you are running a higher lifestyle for whatever reason, then it may seem a little low.

Re: Roleplaying
You are all doing excellent.

Re: Southern accents
They can be hard to render well in print. I grew up in Alabama within 50 miles (~80 kilometers) of Tuscaloosa. I also went to college there. I can hear the accent even if you don't write it.

Re: Y'all
This is a little bit of a pet peeve of most Southerners, so don't take it personally. It is a contraction of "you all" and is thus written "y'all." In the likely event you wish to include everyone in the room, "y'all" is adequate; however, most people say, "all y'all."

Anything I missed?

Ok.



Figured as much.



Right. Not using (or reading/hearing) that one a lot. I basically just know it exists. Never read/heard "all y'all" before though.

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Thanee

Another one that I use a lot that makes non-southerns in stop in confusion is "Aaaauuuggghhhht!" This is generally directed at dogs or children and generally means "You aught not touch that"

I lived in Alabama for 5 years and don't ever recall hearing that one.


Anyway:
Dropping scan
Threading Analyze (11d6.hits(5)=4) Using 3 hits
Resiting fading (11d6.hits(5)=5) 0 fading
Analyzing the node. (16d6.hits(5)=5, 16d6.hits(5)=5)

May try hacking it depending on the stats...