The ECD's been approved as is, Mack's cool....

As for the associations, with Mack it could be as simple as her having attended a function Tristan was dragged to by Katie... the runners don't have to be chummy, there just has to be some association...

Some one should take the lead in the negotiations. Manny is smart enough to know that he's not the guy to do the talking here. If we need to get into a seedy nightclub or get a wino to tell us about the last guys who came down this alley, I'm your guy, but dealing with a Johnson on a virtual chessboard......?

Going to need a negotiations roll, just pop the resulting rolls up here... *nod*

14:11:10:8:8:5:5:4:4:3:1:1

Much with the good... and er... I asume you meant 2/3 up front?

Wow, having an Ice Queen Face is pretty cool!

On a side note: I can post for the rest of today but I'm going out of town to visit a lady friend so I probably won't be able to post until Monday. Is that going to be a problem?

Shouldn't be too much of a problem, the meet'll likely be over by then, but that's all good....

Yeah...yeah...what you said.

The meet seems to be in capable hands. Tristan has some high social skills but negotiation isn't one of them. Besides, all the questions/stipulations/reservations I had about the run were addressed before I could post them.

Hey guys. I'm here a few times a day and reading, but so far there hasn't been anything for Manny to say.

Not a problem, my character isn't much of a talker either.

:: bump ::

Hello out there?

Apologies for the delay, was making sure Grey had posted... or that was the plan... got sidetracked with my new Video Card...

Back on the subject of how our characters know each other, Stitch has an O.R.C. member contact with loose ties to the Ork Underground, a Club Habitue' contact, and the closest he has to a tribal contact is a Cascade Ork Smuggler. He has other contacts, but those three seemed the likeliest as far as ties to the other runners go.

But keep in mind, he is also a runner specializing in combining mundane and magical first aid, and unlike your average street doc, he can go right to the firefight to help you. It's likely he has at least casually met a good number of runners.

Manny has an Cascade Ork shaman ex-smuggler contact, and bartenders at two of the coolest clubs in the Sprawl (Penumbra and Underworld 93). Maybe we've never met but I know two or three of your contacts?

Glyph: you and I are good to go. Tristan has a club habitue contact as well and does a fair amount of clubbing.

Bearclaw: I think we already covered this but "ditto".

Dashifen: Pili has underground contacts, yes? That as good a way as any to to have met Stitch.

Cougar could know Pili and Stitch through the Underground as well.

Perfecto. That just leaves us, oddily enough, with how to connect the Face...strange.

I think the best way would be that Tristan and Mack met at a politically driven dinner hosted by a wealthy family in Bellvue Proper. Of course, Mack was not introduced by her real name, nor did she give any indication as to her true career at that event. In fact, Tristan will probably be quite surprised to find her working the shadows at all as she had given a perfect performance as a political advisor.

Thats a deal.

Did we forget anyone?

For the Makeover spell, cast at Force: 3, all Spell Pool used for the casting, 2M Drain:

First try: no successes but resisted Drain.

Second try:

Spellcasting: 11, 11, 11, 8, 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1 (4 successes).

Drain: 11, 5, 5, 4, 3, 1 (resisted Drain).

Healthy Glow (1): 05 04 04 04 04 02 #D:6 TN:4 HR:5 S:5
Drain (2L): 09 08 05 05 04 04 04 04 03 02 01 01 #D:12 TN:2 HR:9 S:10 (resisted drain)

Summoning (TN 2): 04 04 03 02 01 #D:5 TN:2 HR:4 S:4
Drain (2M): 11 05 04 04 03 #D:5 TN:2 HR:11 S:5 (resisted drain)

Don't know if its needed but its been a while since I got to roll the dice, so....

Etiquette for dealing w/ the company man: 1, 1, 2, 2, 5, 8

joy.

Can we actually get the details so that we can see what we have questions about?

Why'd it have to be a Japanese guy?

Its always a Japanese guy....well, somethimes its a Russian.....

or an Italian

Of course...you must pronounce that EYEtalian

Sorry for the delay, been a banner week here.

I'll have the map up ASAP, need to use my mad paint skills to create it in computer form, as I lack a scanner.

Not a problem man, it happens.

So, if it was 40k total with 2/3rds up front, that's 26,400 nuyen on the sticks, right? (40,000 * .66 = 26,400) Just making sure I know how much spending money we all have

Is there any information as to who is footing the bill on the chips? Before I ask our host, I want to make sure it's not available on chip.

The chips are clean certified cred, no indication of who's handled it. Good as cash and ten times as portable.

That number sounds about right to me as well, for the amount on them.

No no...not the credsticks the optical chips. I meant...who's paying to have him extracted.

As he indicated, the optical chips show that he is funding the extraction. There is no tell of who the corporation doing the pickup is, though by the presense of the saraman, one of the Japancorps would be a good guess.

My laptop is dying -- it's failing somehow and rebooting -- so I'm going to be re-tooling for a few days. I'll be in and out to post when I can. Just wanted to let everyone know.

Etiquette: 17:9:7:7:4:1

Come on people.....post already!!!

I figured we were waiting on stuff from Digital Heroin, who hasn't been very active lately.

I was waiting for some player activity actually, which is my bad for not indicating so earlier. I've got the map, just need to use my mad paint skills to render the blueprint up.

What is the access level of the cards we were given?

Employee cards. They'll get a person into just about anywhere on the second floor save security offices, and into the apartment complex as well, though each person has an individual entry system to their apartment.



Aside from the usual servant drones that come with a suite of this calibre, there are no transmissions that could be associated with a surveillance drone or a bug.

At this point, I'm gunna wait on making plans to see what the map looks like.

we're doing an extraction w/o a rigger or a decker. I can't wait!! This should be good--no, EPIC.

i vote something unorthodox...say, are "reality shows" still popular?
(I'm actually serious about that....Thoughts?)

We go in as a group of mimes and kidnap him as part of our show ... oh wait, that may not work. Hrm ......

I'm on spring break and so I'm limiting my amount of posts (because I don't have a lot of connection time. I'll catch Pili up when I get back to my broadband connection (whee) on Friday. Until then!

any idea how long before we have a map to go by?

The mime thing...I've seen that before...who did it? Something about obtaining legal mime permits to put on a show and then using an invisbility spell to hide the mark...

Was "the Mime thing" you, Dash?

Hoping to have the map by tonight, sadly I'm anal to the extreme about something that'll turn out poor as is... good news is, at the end of the week I'll have a scanner, so any further maps will be done in record time...

It's alive... aliiiive!

After getting Norman to pick them up in his cab, Manny will stop by the closest place to buy any designers version of the Aramente armored suit. If he's gonna try to play corporator, he should at least look like a successful one.
Then, it's south to Payalup and Madam Mei's. After that, it's over to Lucy's (my fixer) and then out to Underworld 93, where anywhere between 1 and 4 of my contacts will be. Lastly, out to Tacoma to talk to Dante, my former mage detective buddy. We can work Tristans contacts into that however is necessary.