Father O'Rourke - At the end of the end of a cul-de-cac, just off one hundred third street, there sits a battered church nestled in the middle of Little Dublin. The church is overseen by Father O'Rourke, and he is also the steward of one of the largest collection of paperback books left in the city. Johnny's mother was a parishoner of the Father's, and Johnny himself was an alterboy at the church for a time. Though he's fallen out of favor with the Lord, Johnny still enjoys a good relationship with the good Father, one maintained through prison correspondance for the past few years.

Slamm-O - If you ask Johnny and the exhuberant Matrix legend where they met, neither will quite remember details. It was that good a party. Johnny is one of few people who know the hacker both online and in the flesh, and he attributes his brush with celebrity to maintaining the friendship. Even underground legends like to say they know a wanted celebirty, after all. Slamm-O provided Johnny with a much needed vent during his prison years, and the two have maintained good contact, but as time has gone on, this legend has come into his own, and he's not quite the fast friend he used to be with Mr. Molotov.

Anarchist Black Cross - Johnny wasn't born into the Anarchist Black Cross, but he had an Uncle who was a member, the black sheep of the family, the outsider. When Johnny went through his first rebellious phase it was Uncle Rory who he turned to, and who introduced him to the ABC. He wasn't much of a member in good standing until the Punk Rock Riot of '65, but ever since he's been a member of the highest order.

Kiffany Reynolds - Kiffany is an up and coming freelance journalist working the crime beat in Seattle. She's a Redmond born scrapper, as comley an orc as you'll ever meet. Shortly before Johnny's release from prison she came to interview him on the state of Punk and the anniversary of the Riot.

Tiffany Vance - In these fast paced digital times people are bound to get lonely. Even with social networking ever-present in our lives, and it being easy to pick up someones 'hook-up' AR tag, sometimes a woman's too intimidated to meet someone in the flesh right away. Or they're at work all the time, playing receptionist at Horizon's Seattle branch office, and are too exhausted to go out to the clubs at night. Either way, ConDate is where single and lonely ladies look for distant love. Johnny met Tiffany through the sight during his legitimate rec-time Matrix use, and she instantly grew sweet on the bad boy behind bars for speaking his mind image. He's not too sure about her corporate indentured tow-the-line attitude, but she's a hot elf-chick, and he's down with that.

Explosives used: Average damage: number of nades
30g: 3P: ~166
125g: 4P: 40
250g: 5P: 20
500g: 6P: 10

Lower the charge, the more nades you can make: it's a question of saturation(or strapping piles of nades together for serious effect, if difficulty throwing), vs having individual nades be slightly more useful.

I'd prefer to err on the side of caution at each step, Dumori's suggestion of using Guard is genius.

I've only got 25 blasting caps so I'd prefer to take my time and make each one count. Take an hour and a half to make the explosive, which is three intervals, and then five intervals each to make the grenades.

For the +4(+6)AP Gel Grenades that would be an interval of 2 minutes and a total of 10 minutes spent on each one. I'll make 16 of them in 2 hours 40 and then move on to more lethal stuff. That will be 8 +2AP Grenades with an interval of 1 min, taking 5 minutes each for a total of 40.

At 125g each that's 3kg of explosive.

Then split what's left into two really big ones with radio detonators. Use +2AP again to make the interval 1 min and take 5 minutes each making them.

That adds up to 5 hours, I think.

All of those IED's have a Threshold of 6 and I'll have 13 Dice or 15 if I have, or can find, decent AR plans to work from.

Chemistry rolls to make the ETN:
First Interval Roll: 7 hits!
Second Roll:1 hit, 5! net hits
Chem result: 5 NET HITS! The explosive is made, purified, and re-purified in an hour, resulting in a solid block of 99.99% ETN and it's rating has been boosted to ELEVEN.

Making of the +4 AP rubber ball grenades(treating them as being made at the same time: 16 genades time 2 minutes each=32 minute intervals):
First roll: 5 Hits
Second roll: one hit:, five net hits
Third Interval roll: five more net hits
Fourth Interval Roll: Four more net hits: cap reached at 13 net hits

Result: in just over 2 hours, you make 16 non-lethal grenades, each one dealing 16P, with +6 AP.


Making of the actual grenades(treating them as being made at the same time: eight grenades at one minute each: 8 minute intervals):
First Interval Roll: 6 Hits!
Second Interval Roll: EIGHT net hits!
Third Interval Roll: !!CRITICAL GLITCH!!, downgraded by Dumori's Guard power! (results below)
Fourth Interval Roll: Three more net hits
Fifth Interval Roll: Five more net hits: Cap reached at 13 net hits.

Glitch Result: Things are going well, flawlessly in fact, right up until a certain detonator goes in wrong. By seeming divine guidance, you manage not to set off a horrible chain reaction, but still waste a blasting cap: this grenade is only going to go off if it's connected to another explosive.
Main Result: The bomb building goes damned well, and with the exception of a hard to detonate grenade, all the grenades are ready to go at 16P with +2 AP.


Fat Boy and Little Man(as always, factory style production: 2 bombs at 1 minutes per interval=2 minute intervals)
First Interval Roll: three hits
Second Interval Roll: three hits, one net hit.
Third Interval Roll: five net hits.
Fourth Interval Roll: SEVEN more net hits!

Result: With such pure ETN, it's easy to mix in a bit of parrafin wax to get two 1kg blocks of destruction(only four intervals: 8 minutes!): as a bonus, they're easily shaped because of the wax. Each will detonate to deal 24P, with +2 AP, and they can be easily shaped into breaching, or cutting charges, or even penetrators, given a shaped metal cone.

Total time: 236 minutes, or just under four hours.

Johnny's time in the slam wasn't exactly a rough ride, but Two-Cell (branded that because of his diminished mental capacity) had it tough. As far as Trolls go, Two-Cell is a monster, but he is a peaceful soul and doesn't like confrontation. From the get-go he was being harassed and challenged by the other inmates, at least until Johnny stepped in. Johnny's mouth didn't do much to help Two-Cell, really, but the fact he'd tried was something for the big guy. And now that they're both on the outside, and Two-Cell's got a job as a janitor for one of Horizon's media centers, well Johnny's been keeping in touch.

Ambush location! The dice tumble: One hit!

Result: Yeah, there's a couple almost-but-not-quite-Barrens spots that you could hit Lonestar, most along Highway 419, situated right on the Auburn/Pullyup border. There's also a huge amount of corp territory, and a huge number of disseffected workers. Any Star patrolling there is going to be in Citymasters with full riot gear though.

Detonators, at least simple ones, aren't a problem. You could make some, given a bit of effort.

I've been working on the list of legal gear I picked up on the way to the lab and I noticed that Pepper Punch is available off the shelf. Would you mind if I ret-conned the Stun Grenades to include a dose of Pepper Punch each?

Nothing comes up for most of the spots, but one of them seems to be an abandoned school about three kilometers southwest of your location.