The poll is closed, and the results have been sent out. Only one could win though (and I'm still amazed that one made so much of an impression!). Yet all the mentions were exceptional, and deserve to be acknowledged. So, every single GM and player involved in a moment that was nominated also gets a point of karma for having been nominated. Here are the exact breakdowns and the final karma bonus totals:

• Alleycat +1 (astral quest) +1 (GMing Blimp of Doom) +1 (GMing Dragon's covering Sybersnake and Tiffany) +1 (for winning) = 4
• bclements +1 (discovering the bodies) = 1
• Cosmo +1 (date at the old movie theatre) +1 (waking up Jan 3) = 2
• Daedalus +1 (Blimp of Doom) +1 (for winning) = 2
• Dragon +1 (Blimp of Doom) +1 (covering Sybersnake and Tiffany) + 1 (GMing Alleycat's astral quest) +1 (for winning) = 4
• Ecclesiastes +1 (Matrix run) = 1
• Virgil +1 (Blimp of Doom) +1 (for winning) = 2

As the first person to have nominated the Blimp of Doom (way back when on July 12!), bclements also gets an additional +1 karma, for a total of 2.

(At least the Blimp of Doom won't be eligible for the next poll: because the next nominees must be alive )

Ah crap. Is it too late to double my life insurance policy?

Oh yeah, karma. Need to remember that.

Shadow: 3+1 GM bonus= 4

Karma Awards (2 weeks)

Sedna: 5
Paul: 3
Scrapheap: 4
Slipshade: 4

Scrap/Slip- One of you make the post for Iris calling the Wongs, since for a post like that where its outcome could have a material impact on the player storyline, I prefer to leave it in the players hands. When you call, you may roll Iris’s etiquette of 3 as well.

Scrap,

Why don't you post Iris's phone call. I am still working on finishing up some projects at my current work and running back and forth to my new job, trying to get things set up there. You may have more time to post than I do.

Slip

WR1/Slip-
I'll see if I can get to it today. If not, I'll post later tonight.

-S

No problem, If I get the urge to post I will just have the cab show up for Max and Scrap can call him with the details for the meet. Sound good?

Iris's roll.


-S

Scrap/Slip- you guys are clear to proceed.

Sedna- Give me two electronics or car b/r tests. Also specify what type of car you're looking for, as well as the neighborhood.

And roll 2d6, add them together, and then pick a number, 2, 3, or 4.

Looking for a couple of cars fairly close together as average as possible (probably means a mid-blue Americar), similar appearance, similar "feel", similar colour (wrist computer scanner), probably something in a distant security-cam "dead" area for a mid blue-collar/low white-collar mall parking lot (probably means Tacoma -- she'd not be doing this in "home" territory in any case). Alarms often "beep beep" audibly when they're set. If she can find someone who's forgotten to do that, so much the better.

The reason for two cars is to switch out the plates between them (should be quick). Then yank out the transponder (link to the other car if quickly possible) and the automatic shut-down. Gloves, of course.

If anyone's curious about SR4, I've been trying to compile the actual data people mentioned on Dumpshock (as opposed to speculation) here.

We aren't sure yet how we're going to work this. (For one thing, more than two of us GMs have to get our hands on the actual rules! and then we're going to have to at least try to understand them.) No matter what, we'll be working at least a month or two in SR3 yet. Figure -- maybe -- we might have something we can actually work with by then. When we do, WinterRat will announce it.

Just because it's looking like my "Jill-of-all-trades" (as my PC was once called in the Salvation thread) might actually benefit from the new rules won't in any way influence how we work this

Sunday karma:

ronin: 1 [August 15-21] = 1
WinterRat: 1 (+1 GM bonus) [August 15-21] = 2

WR1-
Not me. I'm going to post up to picking up Max, and then hopefully he will post up to the meeting with the Wongs. I also know that he is calling several contacts, but I'm sure that you two have already discussed that issue.

-S

Sorry, still busy with the job chance and personal stuff. Iwill try to post today. I am working withoug a character sheet at the moment though.

WR1 could you email me my character sheet if you get a chance? That would be a great help.

Slip

Hey, at least we balance out? There is one build aspect in which she won't do so well either. (And I'll spare you all the generalist v. specialist debate Besides, we already know each other's side of it by heart ... and I'm working against the Dumpshock tide in any case.)

I absolutely guarantee you Dragon's still going to be able to pulverise Alleycat regardless ... that is, if she lets him get that close to her while he's harbouring intentions toward her of a more or less lethal nature


Good luck with that job possibility, Slipshade!

Sedna - Thanks...actually I ment to say job Change. I got it, which is great, though my posting will drop. I am hoping for once a day, but most likely once every other day.

Slip

GM's - I should have my SR4 rulebook in the next week or two. From the looks of things Shaman's will take a bit of a hit, but I think other aspects of the rules will help Max out a lot. Converting Max will be interesting to say the least.

Slip

Hey, I'm happy with SR4 so far. As soon as the PDF is available, I'm getting it.

Anyone here know the official release date for the book? I am hoping it will be by the end of the week so I can have it in my grubby, little hands early next week.

Back online. SR4 has been officially released, although the books probably won't be in stores until mid-September. It was a race to get them at Gen Con, the booth sold out Friday, Saturday, and Sunday within six minutes of opening. I haven't had a chance to flip through the rules and see what changed from playtest, but everyone that ran through the booth demo of the game was very excited about it.

Mid - September ouch, that sucks...guess I will just have to wait. Maybe I'll grab the pdf, but I really didn't want to buy both.

WR1/Scrap - Sorry about the delay, but posting may have to wait one more day. I am still trying to get something up today, but I can't promise it.

Slip-
No hurry.

-S

Hey had to work longer than expected today and subsequent engagement also ran longer than I thought. I'll post to Sedna and ASVW tomorrow. Scrap and Slip, I believe that storyline's waiting on Slip so nothing there for me. Correct me anyone if I'm mistaken.

Sedna- OK, you'll be able to boost the car without any problems, a stock Ford Americar, absolutely ordinary with nothing unusual. Let me know if you need anything else. sorry for the delay, I was scanning your posts again to make sure I didn't miss anything you needed from me immediately.

EDIT: Edited out due to player stupidity and inability to read english.

P.S. Bandit, Ronin, you guys remember that big argument my dad and I had at my house in front of you guys that one time in regards to whether there was a 'road closed' sign by my house or not?

Shadow, Bandit- Which of you is handling Max in this situation? I assume I'm not because I wasn't playing Max when he hooked Erebus up with the job. Just a clarifying question.

Shadow: You and I should begin a dialouge (by email) about how to handle Erebus's call to Max. I am very willing to handle the roleplaying aspect of Max if you are busy, since I've used him already, but I'd like you to tell me what information he should have concerning Erebus's questions.

It is highly concievable that Max is being tangled up in this web as well and if that is the case I'd like you and I to sort through it a bit before I go trodding my clumsy size 11's all over your cleverly woven web.

To all: Shadow and I can continue our discussion in private communication, I just posted here to let you know that we will be working on the issues

To my PC's concerning karma:

I know that I haven't given out an award in 6 weeks and you are both owed, Cedric especially. Things just snowballed so much that I never seemed to be able to catch up on all the back-reading of posts that I require to accurately update records and award karma.

Last night I stayed up to the wee-hours working on this and I will finish the rest of the reading this evening so that you can both have karma awards by tomorrow AM.

Thank you all.

Good to see you back on track, bandit

About the car, noted: I'll try to get that written and finished today.

Re your requests, WinterRat:

Car time lasts from (more or less) 21:14:06 until 21:57:19. The last time you were on the phone with Global was roughly two hours ago IC, when you first put in the Roberto request (along with a lot of other requests). Do you still want to call him again? If yes, post the call in-thread (main), and I'll work with you IC there. Are there any changes to what you're telling and/or asking?

You'd also already checked in with Tiffany at an unspecified time earlier today (third last paragraph), she'd been coming off an all-nighter at the office. She'd mentioned nothing about the faked report, just the current project (files and other corporate links): and she's had her people working on it furiously. Are you calling her again?

(Just returned to e-mail, and -- gah! )

Winterrat: After reading Sedna's post on how recently you have made inquires with your contacts I'd like to share my two cents worth of wisdom on the topic of Dragon making additional phone calls . . .

"Don't poke the badger . . . "

That is all.

Ugh, my bad. For some reason I thought a whole day had gone by (because we're getting ready to move to the LITS: IC 8th-14th thread) and I somehow thought we were at 21:00:00 on the 8th, because I was already making the mental shift to that thread. Thanks muchy for pointing that out Sedna, and ignore that last doofusy comment of mine.

Almost caught up now. I will try to cover the time from after the phone calls to the meet with Scrap tomorrow.

WR1 - Let me know if I need to change anything about the phone calls.

Slip

Back-owed karma for my players

Cedric: 6 [Jul 11th - Aug 21]
Moirdryd: 3 [Jul 11th - Aug 21] + 1*
*Bonus point is for completing our agreed upon objectives, though taking more than the agreed upon amount of time.

This award does not include any karma awards that will be given out on this coming Sunday.

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (Aug 17th - Aug 23rd)
Ecclesiastes: 1 pt (Aug 17th - Aug 23rd)
Bastard: 1 pt (Aug 17th - Aug 23rd)
Bclements: 2 pts (Aug 17th - Aug 23rd)

Sedna- Keep moving along up until meeting back up with Blaze and Klaus, per our discussions. You're doing fine, and I have nothing in particular for Black Tony at this time. Since it's a relatively simple business transaction, we can hold off going in depth on his character at this moment. Also, I will post letting you know Sivalius's response, but it will be via a voicemail that you can respond to at your leisure, so don't worry about waiting for me to do that or carrying on a conversation with him.

Paul/Sedna- STOP when you both meet back up with each other and Klaus. I will take it from there.

Oh, and ONE of you two call odd or even.

Slip/Scrap- You guys are doing good, proceed up until you meet the Wongs, and I will take it from there. Security for the building is similar to Max's. Nothing too heavy, reasonably standard for a High type lifestyle. Just another generic corporate condo type place.

Slip- No problems on the calls, although for reference, telepathic/magical communication (the sentence that said "what is in your nature to do, what you must do") is in red. Since it wasn't italicized I assume it wasn't simply an internal monologue, and it probably wasn't radio either. If I'm wrong though, feel free to ignore what I just said.

Um... Odd?

(Be better then the negative number of last time.)

Paul- Was there anything you wanted to do between dropping Alleycat off and meeting Klaus?

WR1 you are correct, I will edit it to be red.

Scrap - Ok, I have posted up till meeting you again. Let me know about which car to take or just post from where I left off up to when we get to the Wong's.

Max's car is a Black Westwind

Slip

WR1/Scrap - Ok I have posted us leaving One Lincoln Tower.

Winter - Do you want us to post the arrival and our way through security or do you want to take it from here?

I am not bringing any weapons inside the building so I should clear security easy.

Sedna- He'll give you the training sim and 20% base cost (do not factor in Street Index) for the Americar and the Dodge Scoot each.

He got 6 successes against TN 4 compared to your 3 against TN 8. Base 4 + 4 for defaulting to attribute. This leaves you with 2 normal successes and 1 complimentary successes. -10% per net success on his part, for 20%. (It started at 50% base cost)

That comes out to a total of 4,400 nuyen, plus the training sim, enough to take you to skill level 1.

(I used the fixer archetype straight out of the BBB; Negotiation 7 and Gear Value complimentary skill of 6 since we're abstracting him. I felt it was legit since he has 'Mechanic and Fence' in his description, so he obviously knows vehicles)

Let me know if you have any questions.

Slip/Scrap- You're up. If you're going to try to fast talk your way through this, give me a Negotiation or Etiquette (Corp) roll. You could also try Intimidation if you want to strong arm your way through it.

Do not just post the roll however. Post the roll in addition to whatever either/each of you say.

Also, if you both choose to speak, each of you may make a separate roll, and it does not have to be the same skill roll.

I just knew you were going to have them ask for identification. Well lets see how we can get around this.

Slip, you beat me to the punch! I'll modify my post to reflect yours ASAP.

-S