Looks like Papa is in. Once someone picks up the rock you can start asking questions. Remember anyone is allowed to ask questions, presuming they stick to the basic premise of what was negotiated--questions about the job, the changes at the Market, and why the Hunter is interested in the Mortal realms.

Redjack--Papa does not see any other stones. It appears that the only one is the one Argent has in his pocket.

I'm going to let Buddha take the lead on this, since D'zan and Leo have had the most interaction with the Hunter and his plane. All Uetz really saw was the flickers of change in his spirit

Ok going to ask questions one at a time so nothing gets lost in the back and forth if that's ok with you BishopMcQ?

Leo
Perception (to see if anything else has been altered about Argent)
1,5,5,4,2,2,5,5,1,5,4,6,3,3 (6 hits)

Works for me. Does the team want to throw out a list of questions to make sure their stuff gets put in the queue by Buddha?

Leo--Besides the change in Argent's eyes, there is a very minor shift in the color of his hair. It is about half a shade darker.

I'm starting to wish that I had Zerone in this game and Uetz in the other, if we're dealing with the Book of Enoch...

Augh, I didn't even think about giving Uetz knowledge in Aztec lore. Is it okay if I spend some karma to increase it to 2 or 3 right now?

JxJxA--Go for it.

Okay, my excel sheet is being funky and doesn't recognize karma spent on knowledge skills, so I'm going to transfer stuff over to another character creator. Just as a reminder for me, I'm spending 7 karma to give myself a rating of 3 in Aztec lore.

Aztec lore on Tezcatlipoca:
Logic(3) + Aztec Lore(3) = 6d6 for 2 hits and a glitch. Oh Invisible Castle, you so crazy...

JxJxA--
Tezcatlipoca is the ever devouring darkness, the Enemy, and the Lord of near and far. He is also the brother of Quetzalcoatl, and helped to create the world.

What skills to figure the Endless out as characters?

Dead Gods, Metaplanar Threats, etc.

Right, so not a lot of correlation with the Horizon corporation or LA runners, huh?

Papa needs a stack of knowledge softs.

Those with Local Area Knowledge (LA)--it looks like the gateway is in the hills east of Hollywood.

w00t! Home go!

Oh, and what do I know about the East Hills of Hollywood (capitalization is mine )

Intuition 4 + LA Area Knowledge 3 (7d6.hits(5)=2)

Fenris--
The East Hills of Hollywood form the natural barrier from what used to be downtown Hollywood (which is now completely underwater) and Pasadena. Northern Hollywood was shaken quite badly by the quakes, but avoided the flooding which devastated the southern half. There are caves in the hills which connect to the underwater complexes, but they have never been successfully mapped.

We all for going then? I am - lets get this hunt started.

Data Search for details about the area we are in:
- [1,2,2,6,6,4,2,3,4,6,5,6] = (5/5)
- [4,3,6,2,4,1,1,2,1,2,5] = (2/7)
- [4,1,3,6,2,2,4,4,6,2] = (2/9)
- [5,5,1,4,6,4,6,4,5] = (5/14)
- [4,5,1,3,1,2,6,5] = (3/17)
- [4,2,6,5,2,6,5] = (4/21)
- [5,4,5,2,4,2] = (2/23)
- [1,5,3,6,5] = (3/26)

Redjack--There were several development proposals for this region before the flooding, which were all scrapped as resources went to shoring up the city and containing everything. UCLA has published several geologic survey treatises about the cave system in the hills, which seemingly sprang into existence when all of the caves beneath LA showed up. Abstracts basically say they don't know, but have several firm theories that it may be magical in nature. The area is technically patrolled by PuebSec under their global PCC contract, but it is for the most part uninhabited and monitored through unmanned systems.

Scan for hidden nodes(15, 1 turn)
- [2,3,6,1,5,5,5,3,1,1] = (4/4)
- [3,4,4,6,6,3,1,6,2] = (3/7)
- [1,6,6,5,2,5,6,2] = (5/12)
- [3,4,3,3,5,4,4] = (1/13)
- [1,3,3,4,5,1] = (1/14)
- [4,2,2,3,1] = (0)
- [5,5,5,3] = (3/17)

7 x 3sec = 21 seconds

At this point, I think it is the IC time unless people need anything else from me.

LOL (wrt them setting something on fire)

Uetz is going to try a cure disease/heal spell on Etain for the rash. I never wrote them up as characters, so should I assume 1-2 points of Essence drain for random bioware/cyberware? Anything in here considered a pollutant? If so, I'm suffering from mild allergy effects.

Also, are there any raw chickens in the house? Were they playing chicken ball a la Aqua Teen Hunger Force?

JxJxA--There are pollutants present in the area. No raw chickens. Uetz will know that anytime there is damage, social unrest, or discontent within the house or the surrounding several blocks, Etain gets emotionally shaken, and can begin showing signs of a rash or worse based on the nature of the damage.

Presume 1 pt of Essence loss for Etain.

Cool. Casting heal on Etain.

Heal spell on Etain's rash:
Magic (5) + Spellcasting(4) + Power Focus(2) - Allergy(2) - Essence Loss(1) = 8d6 for 2 hits.

Resisting drain: DV = Phys Damage - 2
Willpower(6) + Charisma(5) + Focused Concentration(1) - Allergy(2) = 10d6 for 1 hit.

Data Search on Locket:
[5,2,5,5,5,3,2,6,1,2,1,2] = (5/5)
[2,1,6,1,2,6,2,2,3,1,5] = (3/8)
[5,4,4,6,1,4,4,2,1,2] = (2/10)
[5,2,1,3,4,1,3,3,2] = (1/11)
[1,2,6,1,3,6,3,2] = (2/13)
[2,6,5,3,1,1,3] = (2/15)
[1,3,6,4,1,2] = (1/16)
[3,6,6,5,4] = (3/19)
[5,4,4,5] = (2/21)

Sorry for the blackout all - dads are back and I am (relatively) kid free! I think we should clean up the trashed pad, see what we ca find out about the woman and start the hunt on the closest object. Just saying.

No worries, since this is my batch of rowdy friends that crashed the pad this time, Uetz can deal with the clean-up stuff while the rest of the gang starts piecing the puzzle together. Unless Bishop is okay with fast-forwarding that stuff, I'm just vamping in IC.

IC I missed the whole 'woman' exchange, so feel free to fill me in.

In the meantime, LA Area 3 + Int 4 (7d6.hits(5)=3)

Fenris--Southwest of the hills, can rule out Pasadena across to Riverside. It leaves Fun City, the Harbor, Santa Monica, and Downtown. Real books and money mean that it is likely in Downtown or Studio City near Santa Monica.

Assensing the living room:
Intuition(3) + Assensing(2) = 5d6 for 1 hit.

I'm not sure if that will do much of anything, but I can also try calling a fire spirit to assense the house for residual astral signatures.

It takes 3 hits to detect a signature.

Everyone reviewing the footage that Papa sent out, please make a Perception (Visual) Test.

Okay, I'll wait to see if someone else wants to make an assensing test.

Edit: Perception(Visual):
Intuition(3) + Perception(2) - Allergy(2) = 3d6 for 3 hits.

Criminey, that was better than with the 5 dice!

Let me know if anyone wants me to call the spirit.

Anyone else tossing those perception tests?

Actually, I forgot to ask if I'm still suffering pollution allergy penalties. If so, then let me reroll before calculating anything. x_x

JxJxA--Yes, for the next few hours at the house, there will be pollution.

Okay, editing my post. I'll probably be suffering my migraine in silence, then.

Perception Check: [5,1,1,1,1,3,4,3,1,4,1,1] = 1 hit + Glitch

I believe he has been effectively distracted in the video....

Clearly it was because Uetz just called PiT0 "pitter patter"
Edit: lulz, just read the IC thread!

Visual Perception:

Intuition(4) + Perception (3) (7d6.hits(5)=2)

LA Area Knowledge for Studio City + Downtown:
Area Knowledge (3) + Intuition (4) (7d6.hits(5)=1, 7d6.hits(5)=4)

So, 1 for Studio City, 4 for Downtown. Seems appropriate

As soon as I can get a visual of what happened I will throw Perception dice.

The Tezcatlipoca stuff is more paranoia from Uetz. He's on edge hearing that his god's nemesis is involved in searching for the book.

Perception
3,1,5,5,6,4,5 (4 hits)

Are people waiting on me for anything at this point?

Read my thoughts and write my posts?

Seriously just me being a lazy sod - put up an IC post from what I got from the Perception test.

Perception Tests and Initiative please.

Perception(3) + Intuition(4) + Attention Co-Processor(2): [2,6,5,1,1,3,2,5,1] = 3 hits
Initiative 13/3 passes: [1,2,3,2,3,1,4,2,6,3,5] = 2 hits + Initiative(11)
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Ditto on the mind reading/posting thing.

D'zan
Perception
6,1,3,2,3,1,3 (1 hit)

Initiative
3,1,4,3,5,6,2,5 (3 hits/total 11/1 IP)

Leo
Perception
6,1,4,5,4,3,5,2,3,5,2,4,3,3 (4 hits)

Initiative
6,1,1,5,3,5,4,5,1,4,2,2,2,3 (4 hits/total 18/2 IP)