@ziro: the Johnson said your ride will be ready in 4 days, so hopefully that's enough time for what you want to do.
Let me know what you need and we'll move on.

Cha 4 Neg 4 Pheromones 3 = 11 [4,3,1,1,5,6,3,4,2,1,4] = 2 hits

Cha 5 + Negotiation 5 = 10 = 1 hit

That'll get you what you're looking for.

Revised

Ziro will bind spirits in the interval. He contacts Dr. Claire in advance.

Day 0: Ziro contacts Talismonger to order replacement Binding Materials.
Turns out he mis-gaged the costs. He thought they would be 1,500 * Force or 7,500. Turns out the cost is 500 * Force (see erata). 7,500 is enough to bind 3 Force 5 Spirits (Note: Ziro padded the cost by 1,000 to cover medical treatment + pain and suffering).

Ziro decides to purchase Force 6 Binding Materials instead - two sets at 3,000 nuyen each. He'll use his own materials for the ritual, and use the purchased materials to restock his inventory.

((Note: I made the same mistake during character generation. Ziro bought 5 sets of Force 5 Binding Materials for 5*5*1,500 = 37,500 . To correct that error, make it 13 sets of Force 6 materials, 13*6*500= 37,500))

While the Talismonger is checking availability, Ziro second guesses the purchase. Thirteen sets of Binding Materials is a substantial investment. He figures he could find other uses for the cred. He tells the Talismonger to hold off on the purchase.

Day 1: Ziro conjures a Force 6 Earth Spirit.
Roll Magic + Summoning + Focus = 13d6
Spirit Rolls Force to challenge summoning = 6d6
Roll Willpower + Logic to mitigate Drain = 9d6

13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [1,4,6,4,1,2,2,4,1,6,6,6,5] = (5)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [1,6,1,6,5,3] = (3)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,3,6,3,2,1,2,5,4] = (3)

Ziro casts Heal on himself.
Roll Magic + Spellcasting + Fetish + Focus -1 = 14d6; Drain 9d6
DV = 3; Drain = 1

14d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,2,5,6,5,3,6,2,2,5,3,3,4,2] = (5)
14d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,6,6,1,3,2,3,4,5] = (4)

(3 points of Physical Damage = -1 Die)

Ziro spends 6 hours in Binding Ritual
Roll Magic + Binding + Focus = 13d6
Spirit Rolls Force*2 to challenge binding = 12d6
Roll Willpower + Logic to mitigate Drain = 9d6

13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,4,3,3,3,4,5,1,4,1,1,1,1] = (1)
13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,1,3,3,1,5,1,5,1,1,3,5] = (4)
13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [4,3,5,2,5,3,6,5,4] = (4)

Use edge to reroll failures on the Binding test.

12d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5) → [4,5,3,1,4,6,1,6,6,3,6,1] = (5)

Dr. Claire treats wounds.
Roll Magic + Spellcasting + Mentor Bonus + Fetish Bonus
Roll Charisma + Willpower to mitigate Drain
DV = 4, Drain = 4 - 2 = 2

14d6.hits(5);8d6.hits(5) → [5,1,3,4,3,4,3,5,5,4,4,2,3,4] = (3)
14d6.hits(5);8d6.hits(5) → [2,3,6,2,1,6,3,1] = (2)

Roll Logic + First Aid + Medical Facility - Awakened

16d6.hits(5) → [6,6,6,1,5,4,4,3,6,6,1,1,4,6,2,1] = (7)

Bottom Line:
Force 6 Earth Spirit Bound; 3 Services owed
Edge used = 1
Binding Materials = 3,000
Heal Spell First Aid = 200


Day 2: Ziro Conjures a Force 6 Air Spirit
Roll Magic + Summoning + Focus + Mentor = 15d6
Spirit Rolls Force to challenge summoning = 6d6
Roll Willpower + Logic to mitigate Drain = 9d6

15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,6,2,3,3,3,5,4,1,4,2,1,6,2,2] = (4)
15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [4,5,5,5,6,1] = (4)
15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,3,1,5,1,4,3,2,3] = (2)

Ziro casts Heal on himself.
Roll Magic + Spellcasting + Fetish + Focus = 15d6; Drain 9d6

15d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,2,1,4,6,3,1,3,5,5,4,5,1,3,1] = (4)
15d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [5,6,2,6,4,5,3,5,2] = (5)

(6 points of Physical Damage = -2 Die)

Ziro rests, then tries summoning another Force 6 Air Spirit.

15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,4,6,1,6,3,6,6,1,3,4,5,5,3,3] = (6)
15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,3,1,3,1,6] = (2)
15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [1,5,5,1,3,6,5,4,5] = (5)

Ziro spends 6 hours in Binding Ritual

13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,2,6,1,5,5,5,5,4,4,6,6,4] = (76)
13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [4,5,1,2,1,1,3,1,4,1,5,4] = (2)
13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,2,2,3,6,4,1,3,6] = (3)

Ziro casts Heal on himself again.
Roll Magic + Spellcasting + Fetish + Focus = 15d6; Drain 9d6

15d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,1,6,3,5,3,1,1,4,1,4,1,2,3,3] = (2)
15d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,2,2,6,3,2,6,4,6] = (3)

Dr. Claire treats wounds.
Roll Logic + First Aid + Medical Facility - Awakened

16d6.hits(5) → [3,5,6,2,1,3,1,4,4,2,2,3,1,5,4,2] = (3)

Bottom Line:
Force 6 Air Spirit Bound; 87 Services owed
Binding Materials = 3,000
First Aid = 200
(3 points of Physical Damage = -1 Die)

Day 3: Ziro says, "What the Hell! One more time." and summons a Force 6 Spirit of Man.
Summoning

13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,6,6,1,3,5,4,2,6,6,6,3,3] = (6)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,5,2,1,4,3] = (1)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [1,1,2,5,2,3,5,1,6] = (3)

Binding

13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,4,4,2,6,6,2,4,5,6,4,5,5] = (65)
13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,2,5,5,1,6,4,2,4,4,1,2] = (4)
13d6.hits(5);12d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,4,4,2,2,6,1,5,4] = (2)

Ziro goes to Dr. Claire
DV = 6; Drain = 4

14d6.hits(5);8d6.hits(5) → [6,5,1,5,2,5,6,6,2,3,5,5,3,6] = (9)
14d6.hits(5);8d6.hits(5) → [2,1,5,2,2,3,4,2] = (1)

Dr. Claire takes 3 boxes of Stun.
Dr. Claire treats wounds.
Roll Logic + First Aid + Medical Facility - Awakened

16d6.hits(5) → [6,1,1,6,4,3,6,6,4,2,3,5,1,2,4,1] = (5)

Bottom Line:
Force 6 Spirit of Man Bound; 65 Services owed
Binding Materials = 3,000
Heal Spell First Aid = 200

Ziro has 4 points Physical Damage

Day 4: Ziro rests at the Clinic. = 2,000 nuyen
Dr. Claire treats wounds.
Roll Logic + Medicine + Medical Facility - Awakened

17d6.hits(5) → [1,1,4,6,1,6,5,3,1,2,2,1,4,6,4,3,5] = (5)

Heal Physical Damage: Roll Body*2 + 5

11d6.hits(5) → [6,3,3,3,6,3,1,4,3,6,3] = (3)

Ziro checks himself out of clinic with 1 Box of Physical Damage remaining.

Grand Total 9,400 for 17 services or approx. 550 /service
11,600 for 15 services or approx. 775 /service

Posted IC for next stage. Once you guys all get to the cabin, let me know how you want to work the surveillance: who's doing what when.

Hey, DBA, going over your binding post in more detail: you've used heal spell to deal w/ drain (if I'm understanding what you're writing). That's a no-no.

Nevermind, then.

I revised the post, replacing Heal Spell with First Aid. Added 1 day of Medical Care. Used the entire 4 days instead of 3. Costs increased 2,200 , Services decreased 2.

Oracle will take a watch, as well, and even when resting will keep his eyes open. His perception dice pool is 13, and his astral perception dice pool is also 13. Assume he's buying successes (~3) where he can, both looking around the house, as well as keeping an eye out outside of the place.

I would also like him to use his psychometry on the house - particularly near the surveillance equipment, to see what sorts of impressions he can pick up about what other teams that had stayed here were feeling.

See revised posts for corrections.

Ready.

Sorry guys, haven't forgotten you, but since DS was out all weekend & work is busy, it may be a couple days.

So we watch drones flying through mountains. How do we spot the one we want? And then what are we doing after that?

I have been wondering the same thing. For some reason I was under the impression that we were looking for ground vehicle. Perhaps not. Extra security for the shipment?

@Oracle, give me a roll for psychometry. The place has been Cleansed, so -6 to the roll.

Re. the target vehicle: I thought I had mentioned that it was a t-bird; if not my apologies. Also, you know its contents are warded.

If everybody could give perception (astral or otherwise) checks, that'd be great. Also let me know if you're using any sensors (thermal, radar, etc).

Psychometry 8 + Intuition 5 + Grade 2 + Qualia 1 + Limbic 1 = 17 - 6 cleansing = 11 dice
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1773757/
[6,6,6,4,5,5,2,4,4,6,2] = 8 hits.

Perception rolls (no enhancements):
Perception 4 + Intuition 5 + Enhanced Perception 4 + Qualia 1 + Limbic 1 = 15 dice
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1773761/
[5,4,5,6,6,2,2,2,2,2,6,3,1,3,3] = 5 hits

Astral Perception:
Assensing 4 + Intuition 5 + Enhanced Perception 4 + Qualia 1 + Limbic 1 = 15 dice
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1773762/
[4,3,3,3,4,2,6,2,3,4,1,3,3,1,2] = 1 hit

@Oracle (psychometry): Mostly the sense you get is boredom, punctuated by a few brief flashes of activity. This place has never been really magically active, so the impressions you get seem a little dull & flat. You do get a couple of strong visual images of thunderbirds coming across the mountain...some of them end quite violently. You *might* be able to use these impressions to pick out your target if you saw it again.

Grandpa:

Intuition 4 + Perception 4 + Visual 2 = 10
Enhancements available: Low Light and Thermal
5 Hits
[6,3,6,1,6,2,2,6,3,6] = 5 Hits

Intuition 4 + Stealth 4 (Knowledge) = 8
Looking to see where he would route a T-bird to avoid detection and plan to focus further efforts there.
Critical Glitch
[1,1,2,3,2,2,1,1] = 0 Hits AND a Critical Glitch

Are my corrections acceptable?

Yes, absolutely. Sorry.

No problem. I'll follow up with the IC post now.

Could the LAV have carried out a monowheel as part of the gear?
Can I have picked up some tracker and capsule rounds?

Ok, so we spot a TBird, then what? Probably lots of TBirds zip through. Check it for wards? Find a ward, then what? Take down the TBird?

What would be useful to have in the capsule rounds that the rest of the team could use for tracking should we lose contact with the target?

I think we don't know what we're going to do yet - We're *supposed* to figure out what it is carrying, and where it is carrying it to. That is pretty hard if it is flying, and we're not - but Oracle has an inkling as to how we're going to overcome that hurdle... but it was pretty vague, so he's not announcing his impression yet. He's keeping an eye to the sky, out the window, though.

Okay, reread the IC thread.

We need to acquire the Target
We need to follow the Target to it's destination
We need to identify the cargo

Target is in a TBird, how do we tell which one? Right now I think we only know it's a TBird and warded and protected.

Do we want to tag the target? I was thinking we need to get all of our tracking options set up.
Astral trailing, directly, or with an item on the TBird.
- Send a Spirit
- Send a Watcher
- Send a Mage
- Hit the TBird with a capsule round with something we can trace astrally. Anyone want to give up a few drops of blood?
Matrix
- Scan the TBird and get it's commcode/subscription
- Hack the TBird
- Tag the TBird with electronic tracking rounds
- Tag the Tbird with gel rounds with sticky clue and rfid tags (Traxcker rounds require doing soem damage, a gel sticky round wouldn't
Physical
- Follow it with our own TBird, anyone got one handy?
- Follow it on other vehicles
- Send drones after it, only a Nimrod, speed 800, might be able to chase a TBird, speed 1000, but a Dalmatian with enough altitude might be able to keep it in tracking range long enough.
- Got a spare satellite?
- Tag it with flourescent paint/scent/radioactive/trace chemicals we can follow.

Wow. All good ideas.

Oracle cannot astrally project, but he can astrally percieve. Once he sees the target (even if physically at first, then astrally), he can make predictions about it. One easy prediction might be "Is this the TBird we are looking for?" That might solve the problem of figuring out which TBird we care about. Following that thing after it zooms past us will be a whole different matter.

I might be able to ask something more vague (and each question gets harder) such as "Where is this TBird going to land next?" But, OOC, I have less confidence in that resulting in anything very useful. Yes/No questions are easiest.

Oracle also doesn't have any hacking gizmos, astral tagging gizmos, or gizmos of any sort that are going to help us, directly. So, the above is about the best I can offer. I'm sure someone else has at least one of those areas covered.

Grandpa would be in favor of a tracking round and a spirit.

We should be prepared to do as many as we can.

There are other ideas as well, I just posted some to get a discussion going.

1) I thought it was a ground vehicle is why I bound an earth spirit. Fortunately, I also bound an air spirit (Raven favors air spirits).

2) My Visual Perception: 6d6.hits(5) → [3,2,2,6,6,4] = (2)
My Astral Perception: 7d6.hits(5) → [6,3,6,1,6,5,1] = (4)

3) I'll ask the air spirit to (astral) patrol the route until further notice, and notify me everytime it spots a moving warded area.

Spirit's Astral Perception: 12d6.hits(5) → [3,5,6,2,2,3,1,5,4,3,1,1] = (3)

4) I will notify the watch whenever the spirit detects a ward. I will astrally project at that time.

I don't think we have a nimrod, or an air-vehicle that can fit everyone (correct me if I am wrong), so sending an air spirit (or even an earth spirit - I think it can still fly, right?) after the thing seems like our best bet.

Other questions
1) Does anyone have anything that we could actually use as a tracker round? (Trackers? Gel rounds? RFIDs? blood? etc)
2) Does anyone have a long-range gun (sniper rifle) that will be able to reliably tag a TBird.

Also, it seems like a good idea to have Oracle attempt the easy question of verifying that the first TBird we see is actually the one we're looking for - so we don't waste spirit services sending them after red-herrings.

Assuming we don't have the vehicle or tracker rounds mentioned - I think that leaves astral tracking as our best bet. We can then physically travel to wherever the spirit is led to.

If it is warded, there might be a enemy mage following astrally, though, so sending a spirit might tip them off that we are on our way. Worth mentioning - but I don't see any other way around it, since we're out of other options for following the thing to its destination.

Grandpa has his sniper rifle which should work to hit the thing. I didn't think about tracer rounds but he might have.

So, GM, does he have some tracer rounds on him?

Well, GM, what say you?

Yep, you got some tracers.

Do we have a way of verifying that this is the target? Can we photograph it and transmit the video to the Johnson or client?

Meanwhile, Ziro tells his Bound Spirit to keep watching, and summons an unbound spirit to follow this vehicle until relieved.

Ziro Conjures a Force 6 Air Spirit
Roll Magic + Summoning + Focus + Mentor = 15d6
Spirit Rolls Force to challenge summoning = 6d6
Roll Willpower + Logic to mitigate Drain = 9d6

15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,6,4,4,6,6,1,3,4,1,5,2,2,6,3] = (5)
15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,1,1,4,3,2] = (0)
15d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,4,3,4,2,2,1,5,1] = (2)

Result = 6 Services. Optional Powers: Energy Aura, Psychokinesis


Ziro summons some watcher spirits, too.
Roll Magic + Summoning + Focus = 13d6; hits = hours of service
Spirit Rolls hours of service (max=6) to challenge summoning = 6d6
Roll Willpower + Logic to mitigate Drain = 9d6

13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,3,1,3,6,5,5,1,3,4,3,1,1] = (3)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [1,1,5,2,3,4] = (1)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,6,1,2,2,1,6,2,3] = (2)

13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [2,3,2,5,5,5,1,1,6,3,3,2,5] = (5)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [1,2,1,4,6,5] = (2)(1)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [5,6,3,2,6,5,2,1,3] = (4)

13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [5,5,5,1,5,3,6,2,1,4,6,3,4] = (6)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [6,1,1,3,1,2] = (1)
13d6.hits(5);6d6.hits(5);9d6.hits(5) → [3,5,3,5,2,6,6,2,2] = (4)

Asking questions about the vehicle.

Logic 8 + Arcana 7 + Neocortical 3 + PuSHeD 1 + Encephelon 1 + Analytics 4 = 24 dice

Question 1 "Will this vehicle lead us to our answers?" (needs to be phrased about the future, and with the vehicle as the subject)
#D=20 : 31546241565365253546 n1=2 n6=4 nHit=10
#D=4 : 5334 n1=0 n6=0 nHit=1 (11 hits total)

Question 2 (if there is time before it leaves Oracle's FOV) "Where will this vehicle land?"
#D=20 : 24512413632313525531 n1=4 n6=1 nHit=5
#D=4 : 6543 n1=0 n6=1 nHit=2 (7 hits total)

Wasted my good roll on the easy question.

If there is time for more, after these are answered, let me know - I'm not sure how long they'll take, or how fast the thing is moving.

Is there the employer supplied transportation ready to move us after this thing?

@Ziro: understood re. spirits. Quick question (I don't have SM/BBB in front of me) do watchers not count towards unbound spirit limit?
@DR: transportation is available, but will take some time to get to you: you'll be about 1/2 hour behind the target.

@Oracle:
"Will this vehicle lead us to our answers?"
You visions are muddled on this, but the various paths that have this t-bird on them seem to lead towards the darkness you're afraid of. You still can't figure out what it is, but this vehicle seems to be headed in that direction.

"Where will this vehicle land?"
This is much more difficult, you have to sort through so many images of crashes, mechanical failures, hostile fire and pilot errors to get to an actual landing: you see massive towers of steel and glass, rivers of concrete between them carrying a massive flood of people. A huge metroplex, definitely, but it doesn't look familiar.

Does anyone have an opinion on Grandpa taking a shot at the T-bird.

Yes, please proceed.

Do you want me to roll for the shot?

Yes, Watcher Spirits are counted seperately. A mage can have up to Charisma watcher spirits in addition to 1 unbound spirit and Charisma bound spirits.

Not sure what the point is: firing tracers* at the T-bird.

Did you mean tracker rounds? That might be useful. Might want to ask the GM if you have tracker rounds, too.

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*Tracer rounds are phosphorus bullets usually interspersed with normal bullets in belt ammo. They allow the gunner to see where the bullets are going, especially in the dark.

Tracker rounds, a shadowrun invention, "include a special RFID tag inside the bullet designed to mark a hit target".

"Trackers" became "tracers" a couple posts up; I was assumming they were equivalent. The ambiguity is noted, tho, so replace "tracers" with "trackers" above.

@Grandpa, roll your shot. You're at a -3 on your roll (-1 medium range, -2 for moving target).

I corrected the IC. Seems to me like the OOC discourse is self evident.

Assuming that the -1 for range is negated by Grandpa's cybereyes:

Agility 5 + Longarms 6 + Specialization 2 - Moving Target 2 = 11
11d6.hits(5) -> [1,6,2,3,3,4,1,4,2,1,3] = (1)
Whew

First, I apologize for just now noticing this post - that is, the "tip them off" part.

Is this a concern? Is this supposed to be a stealth mission?

My 2 : This isn't the first time this has been tried; the target is probably expecting something. This particular cabin was used before; the previous efforts were probably conducted from here, too. The previous efforts failed; we should expect the target to employ countermeasures.

Let me repeat my previous question: Do you guys want Ziro to follow the T-Bird along with his spirits, or do you want Ziro to remain at the cabin to provide magical protection for the group?

Either one. I was mostly throwing the "tip them off" thing out there so we at least think about it. I think you've brought up some good points.

Looks like a hit.
Are those stealth or security tags? Your choice.

2 minutes until loss of LOS, 3 until you loose the signal from the tag (mountain will block it).

Security, please.

Sounds fine, just make sure you note down the cost.

It seems like people have sort of lost interest...should we consider this run dead? Or is it just the holidays?

One part holidays, two parts "been a long time".

I'll keep watching.

Same here. IIRC, we just tagged the Tbird with a tracer round, sent some spirits to track it, and Oracle did his best to predict where it would land (seeing a city, not wilderness, and not a crash). Unless I am mistaken, we don't have a way to keep up with it, so we're waiting to see where it goes, and make plans from there.