For the first, If you count off four dice from one side of the line, I get 4 hits (if taken off the end) or five hits (if taken off the front). Either should do for hearing you.
For the second test, either ways its 4 hits.
Last test is 6 hits, either way

Your forgetting that this is an opposed test and that the Threshold to overhear subvocal speech is 4.

You fail to overhear Gecko and don't make the subsequent Observe in Detail checks.

One more warning. Rationality and friendly gameplay. I don't care about dicepools. Decide it player-to-player, and move on.

Fair enough.

Doesn't really matter at this point. Out of pure curiousity though, I thought the -4 to the test was to compensate for how quiet you were being. Why the -4DP and the threashold of 4?
Hey Jake, there are a few things I want to do after parting with Portia, and in the morning before 1:30 (Celeste sleeps lightly). Mostly minor things. Find a Jazz dealer, buy some Oxygenated Flourocarbs and have them put in, and a few other odds and ends. How would you want to handle such things? Are you online with Yahoo right now? (I am in Ubuntu again and don't want to restart my computer only to find you offline).

he's online

I'm spit-balling a -4 for Observer Distracted and not immediate vicinity. There's also background noise to take into consideration, an alley next to a nightclub gets pretty noisy, I don't know how busy the main street is but I imagine it's far from quiet.

Perception tests have different Thresholds depending on the Magnitude of the event. Subvocal speech is listed as 4.

You'd also have to overcome the 4 Hits Gecko gets to not be overheard from infiltration.

In summary, it would require 8 hits with at least a -4 penalty to your dice pool.

Rather than step on any more toes, I'll ask before I post.

Seems everyone went from full-on Tactical mode to nine-sheets-to-the-wind, party like it's 1999 mode in about five seconds flat last night.

Nobody officially mentioned bringing down the TacNet or the CreepHunt server. Pura, at least, seems to have left her Simrig on all night.

So what might a patient observer have 'overheard'?

Anything that wasn't disconnected from the TacNet or CreepHunt server or that didn't have it's wireless turned completely off is fair game for a high-tech Voyeur like Gecko.

Well, Jake certainly wasn't broadcasting his eye and ear feeds...though, Pura's call as to whether she logged her simfeed out of the tacnet.

DD's simrig is running 24/7, unless specifically stated to be turned off, but she's not broadcasting that 24/7. I assume that once the run is over, tacnet's taken down anyway, and standard privacy protocols are in effect without stating so.

TacNet is still up and running. You can re-subscribe to it at any point through the CreepHunt server.

Gecko hasn't left. If you boot the TacSoft and check he's still creeping around the building keeping lookout.

At noon the next day ("Loft" thread)? Or is that in the timeframe of the general thread, which saw the street scene with Portia/Celeste/Gecko?

Both.

He'll have napped on and off but this ain't over by a long shot.

We just whacked a major crime figure, there's still money to be divvied up and the data on the Cyberdeck to be discussed.

Jake distributed the money from the looted credstick, everyone got 8K.

I seem to have managed to miss that in the IC thread somehow.....



Thanx for letting me know.

I am not sure if it was mentioned in the thread.

That would explain how I missed it.....

Just because Pura had the simrig on doesn't mean she was broadcasting to the Tacnet. She turned ooff the Tacnet after the questioning was done, but before she went up stairs to take a shower since she wouldn't want everyone getting a peek if she looked in the mirror.

Dancer would o' forgot... but he wasn't doing a whole lot of anything besides cursing and trying to make that Analyze program work... oh, you would have also gotten to see the ever-so-attractive sight of... well... umm... huh. alcohol being spilled? Once he got into the apartment and settled in, however, he would have gotten comfortable, so everything that wasn't clothes or trode net would have been taken off and tossed into a corner, then covered with his coat. Sorry Gecko. No naughty Loft sights for you! Well, at least, none from Dancer.

FYI, Sorry Easy has been so quiet.

I've been very busy with RL.

The AC went out last weekend.

It was also in the mid 80 in Dallas Texas last weekend!

In November!

I was sick for the last half of the week.

And my 3 year old had an emergency partial root canal Monday (came through like a trooper).

Oh and the toaster oven went out.

Any way I'm back.

Went on a bit of a trip, thought I would be back early enough to post tonight, but not so. See you all tomorrow

Not exactly happy with the threading tools on here, since I have no mod functions...can't delete redundant double posts or move things into the right threads.

That being said, Vice and DD's convo should be in main thread, not Loft.

D'oh. Moving my reply.

Same.

Okay, I think we're all basically in our mid-day, mid afternoon grooves...give me a heads' up when you all want to get to that evening.

DD and Vice are on the way to the club. They should arrive soon at about 2015 or so. DD reserved one slot on stage, either before 9 PM, or later, and would have sent Jake a message ahead so she can present Vice to him.

I'm ready to move ahead to 9pm as well. I got done what I needed to get done with my debt so I'm good to go.

Works fine for me.

Dancer and Portia have a couple more things to take care of, but we'll deal with that on our own time. Time-jump away

I totally haven't slept in 37 hours and counting. Been busy with school and writing papers. Hence the lack of posting. Will try to get caught up tomorrow.

Sounds like a laugh riot. Good luck with the push.

Sorry I've been out of it folks, expect the second chapter briefing today.

First of all, 2 Karma on the table.
+1 for the 6 that got out and handled the run.
+1 to Portia, DD, Celeste, Dancer, and Pura for quality RP.
+1 to Dancer and Portia for helping with the game.

Yep. Just call me Lando.

Edit: In retrospect, perhaps he's not the best example of a character who blunders into the protagonists in the middle of an adventure and comes to their aid, because of that whole betraying them to the Empire part.

Okay, kids, it has begun.*ominous Mortal Kombat voice*

Edited last post when I noticed I'd completely forgotten to finish it.

Sorry guys, been really busy lately. Normalcy should be resuming now.

What'll the stuff on Vice's list run? List price +5% for everything, with the boots lumped in as part of the fatigues?

I have an announcement to make. First of all, I apologize for the delays in my responses, but things have been getting steadily worse at home. I've been unemployed for months, and tenuous truce with my Father has given me a place to stay and get online. This truce has reached an end tonight, and I will be out of stable contact for the foreseeable future. This means, unfortunately, this game will suffer, and for that, I apologize. I ask that my players and friends be patient while my life settles back into whatever form it will take.

Thank you.

I am sad to hear that, I wish you the best of luck to solve this situation. Real life takes priority, as always.

Best of luck with getting real life back on track as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Good luck with everything. Let me know if I can do anything to help!

Okay, folks. I'm around again. Things are settled in now.

Glad to hear that you got things settled.

Nice to hear!

Do we find anything about Laod's location for this evening?

Yes. Apparently, he's spending the evening at Unlimited, a Hollywood bar catering to hedonists.

What was the date of the recorded firefight that Lord Hades was last seen in?

Any info on what clothing is appropriate for Unlimited from the videos?

All kinds, but it all looks easily removeable...the place is known for it's orgies of Greek proportions...