Chaske is a Technomancer, he interprets the datastream as a fusion of webbing and drum beats. After his brother disappeared he more or less stopped doing meditations, so as the cacophony of the Matrix began to eat away at his sanity he turned to drugs and cheap booze to dull his senses enough to keep the noise in check.

Cool, gotcha. I figured it was something like that, I just wanted to be sure.

Also, damn but I have a good bit of writing to do tonight.

And I'm spent. Hope you enjoy the posts, guys.

Awesome Stuff Abschalten. Great to have a GM that hard-working.

Let's see if I remain standing:

Body 5 + Willpower 3 - Wound Modifier 1 (thanks to High Pain Tolerance 3) = 7 Dice
7d6.hits(5) → [6,5,3,4,4,5,4] = (3)
3 Hits

Better than I expected considering my usual luck on Invisible Castle.

Threading up a Decrypt: 4 Software 5 Resonance 2 Paragon(Flow) (11d6 → [4,2,4,6,6,1,3,3,6,3,5] = (43)
4 hits

So Rating 4, resisting 4S Drain:
Resting Drain for Decrypt: 5 Intuition 5 Resonance (10d6 → [6,6,6,4,2,2,3,6,5,4] = (44)
Muaha! 5 hits!

Now doing Decrypt + Electronic Warfare, finally!
5 Electronic Warfare 4 Decrypt (9d6 → [4,1,2,3,5,4,2,4,5] = (30)


Bah, only 2 hits!

Chaske is poking about the area in AR. Although his vision is completely blocked by the AR window through which he's doing his prowling the rest of his (admittedly dulled) senses are still operating and if he feels or hears anything out of the ordinary he won't hesitate to shrink his current AR window and see what's going on.

Since cryptanalysis is usually a 1 Combat Turn extended test should I roll a few more batches of decryption?

And echoing Combat Mage's sentiments, this is shaping up to be an awesome campaign so far, Abschalten!
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In other news however, Chaske's paragon gives him +1 to compiling Code or Data sprites and his stream grants access to both. Anyone played a Technomancer before? Which do you think would be better? I can make a strong case for either of them.

Navigation test: 4 Intuition + 1 Skill + 2 Cyberware + 5 Mapsoft = 6 hits(!)

Pilot Ground Vehicle test: 7 Reaction + 4(6) Skill + 2 Control Rig + 2 Hot-sim - 2 Conditions = 6 hits(again!)

Hope I did that all properly.

I totally screwed up that roll.

Perception 5 + Intuition 3 + Enhanced Perception 3 - Rain 2 - Distraction 3 = 6 dice

5d6+3d6+3d6-3d6-2d6 → [4,4,6,5,3,2,4,3,2,3,1,-1,-5,-5,-4,-4] = (18)

As I said, I screwed it up. But hey, two successes! Now I know how it precisely works.

if you do 16d6.hits(5) on Invisible Castle, it'll count your hits for you.

Eh, I'll get used to it. =P This is the first PbP I've ever done - but not the first forum RP. =D

@Doc Chase: Didn't you forget your Perceptive II Quality?

@Lamhslea

@Doc Chase

As for the rest of ya, your results are noted and I'll weave them into the next posts.

And I appreciate the compliments. I haven't GM'd Shadowrun in a very, very long time, and I haven't done any creative writing in a longer time. This lets me stretch both muscles. Hopefully I'll shake off the rust and regain a fraction of my old glory as time goes on.

I did. =P

New results:

8d6 → [1,5,5,6,6,5,5,4] = AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


I'm already a fan of the writing. I think my subconscious is trying to out-Noir everyone, and it's left me feeling very good.

ANGUISH! SUFFERING! mmmmyess, mmmyess...

Body Test (5d6.hits(5)=0)
Ruh oh!


Now on to the Cryptanalysis!

Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 1 (8d6.hits(5)=1)
Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 2 (7d6.hits(5)=1)
Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 3 (6d6.hits(5)=3)
Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 4 (5d6.hits(5)=3)
Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 5 (4d6.hits(5)=2)
Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 6 (3d6.hits(5)=0)
Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 7 (2d6.hits(5)=0)
Electronic Warfare 5 + Decrypt 4 - 8 (1d6.hits(5)=0)

10 hits total

So far this is looking really amazing. And it can only get better!

Trying to run, defaulting on Athletics
[5,6,6,3,6,3,6] = (5)
7d6.hits (5)=5

@Abschalten: BTW your new avatar really fits the image of a devious GM taking delight in the suffering of the characters.

That is exactly why I picked it.

Hoi........

See, now every time he gives the biggrin we just look at the avvie.

And then we know.

This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me go "So yea.... we're still allowed to get Doc Wagon contract, right? RIGHT?!"

Unless there's a SpecOps team involved.

Now, I just regret not getting the gauss rifle....

Rastus would be quick to point out to you that, eh, I haven't had a good record with my "Special Ops" teams.

Last time I put a group up against one, it, uh.... didn't turn out as anticipated...

Thank goodness my technomancer isn't being actively hunted by a AAA corp that has the nuyen and willingness to put such a thing together.


....Right?

Well... maybe not right now...

Last time Abs sicced a SpecOps team on my character and co., it turned out VERY badly for the SpecOps. Aside from one close call with the face that was thankfully averted with edge, every last trooper was killed with humiliating ease. First the troll leader got one-shot'd in the face with a flechette gun by the face(oh the irony), then my hacker(whom was the only one packing anything bigger than a pistol at the time) whittled down the others while the two sams dealt killing blows. The mage was shockingly unhelpful.

Again, fuck you for bring it up.

And as I recall the mage did have a spirit squash one of them. Like engulfed or crushed him or something...

Hey man, I can now at least admit that we got lucky. Plus I remember that you did say you made that SpecOps team weaker because you thought we weren't up to taking them on. Well, at least you won't have to make that mistake this time considering the people we have now. Just remember: Use grenades, have a sniper, and make sure they keep behind cover.

@CombatMage


For the rest of you: I'll put the results of your rolls into my follow ups for you all.

I'm already addicted to this game! I've never pressed F5 this often on Dumpshock.

I curse you Abschalten.
I curse the day you were born.

Just wait until this little prologue of ours is done and shit gets real. Oh yes, then the real fun begins, I assure you. I've been with Abs a while, I'd know.

Haha. Well I will have follow ups for people who've posted out tonight. For those that haven't responded yet I'll get to them after they do so. We're gonna get to a point soon where people are being responded to at different rates than others, and once some of you get together you'll be able to RP amongst yourselves in posts without any hand-holding from me. Then it'll be a quicker moving game to a point.

Like I said, if I didn't post a response for you, don't freak out. You're still in the game, just moving ahead with folks who've already posted.

@CombatMage

Compiling a sprite:Compiling R3 Courier Sprite w/ Decrypt CF: 4 Compiling + 5 Resonance + 2 Hot Sim. Rating 3 Sprite (11d6.hits(5)=0, 3d6.hits(5)=3)

Well...I think I'll spend some Edge to reroll that absolutely atrocious roll...
Compiling Reroll: 4 Compiling + 5 Resonance + 2 Hot Sim Resisting 6S Fading:5 Resonance + 5 Intuition (11d6.hits(5)=5, 10d6.hits(5)=3)
5 hits against the sprite's 3
Resists 3S out of 6S

And now threading up a Track CF to go looking for Forward Team!
Threading (Track CF): 4 Software + 5 Resonance + 2 Paragon (11d6.hits(5)=4)
4 Hits, going to use all of them

Resisting 4S Fading
Resisting 4S Fading from Track Threading: 5 Intuition + 5 Resonance (10d6.hits(5)=4)
Resists all fading

And now finally to go looking for the sucker!
Chaske has 3 IP while in VR, and tracing has an interval of a Complex Action, so I'm justing going to throw out 10 rolls, if the cumulative penalties are returning just knock off rolls starting on the rightmost roll.

Trace User (Forward Team): 4 Track + 4 Compute + 2 Hot Sim. [If cumulative penalty take off from rightmost rolls first.] (8d6.hits(5)=3, 8d6.hits(5)=2, 8d6.hits(5)=6, 8d6.hits(5)=2, 8d6.hits(5)=2, 8d6.hits(5)=3, 8d6.hits(5)=0, 8d6.hits(5)=4, 8d6.hits(5)=3, 8d6.hits(5)=4)
3 hits, 2 hits, 6 hits, 2 hits, 2 hits, 0 hits, 4 hits, 3 hits, 4 hits
Doh, forgot to add 2 dice for hot simming (but also forgot to remove 1 die for being wounded, unless the Bliss has kicked in) I'm happy with those rolls, however.

Once Chaske reaches Forward Team's node (if he does) he's probably going to hack into whatever looks the least secure and hijack himself a vid/map feed of some sort to see what's going on.

As for the sprite, he's trusting in its wisdom to find something interesting. Also, since he doesn't have much of an idea as to what is going on he doesn't want to offend it by being too nitpicky. He would appreciate Access ID's, however. Just in case he needs to spoof something.

Compiled R3 sprite
Threaded R4 Track CF
Took 3S damage

Woo hoo!

Memory roll: 7d6 → [4,5,1,5,5,3,1] = (24)


4 Logic + 3 Intuition + Eidetic Sense Memory - I'm going to remember quite a bit about this hombre.

Doc Chase

@Lamhslea

Going full defence! Dunno if the specialization applies to this too, if so just roll two more dice and add the hits to mine.

7 Reaction + 2 Handling + 4 Skill - 2 Something = 11 dice
11d6.hits(5) → [5,3,3,5,1,6,1,5,6,1,5] = (6), 11d6.hits(5) → [6,6,6,6,1,2,2,6,3,2,2] = (5), 11d6.hits(5) → [2,5,5,3,1,3,3,2,5,4,5] = (4)

Sure hope I managed to dodge something.

@Doc Chase

*hums the A-Team theme*

@Martin

Follow him to the ground? Oh yeah. I half-expect to go through the floor into whatever basement may be here...

10d6.hits(5) → [3,2,1,4,6,1,4,5,2,4] = (2)

Commanding Voice - Charisma 7 + Leadership 2
9d6.hits(5) → [6,2,2,6,5,5,6,4,6] = (6)


And now the game truly begins. Con(Impersonating a Police Officer) 7 + Charisma 7 + Kinesics 3

17d6.hits(5) → [1,3,6,1,3,4,5,4,1,3,3,1,4,1,3,5,4] = (3)


WHAT THATS IT bah it's a good thing I was counting on Coatl to turn this guy into so much paste.

Not if I'm going to only get two hits on a tackle. Although I beat that pavement up pretty well.

Just for future reference Marty, your muscle augmentation/toner adds it's rating to your strength and agility, meaning you treat those two stats as one higher for pretty much everything. This also means that your roll is a die short.

::frowns, double checks his sheet, realizes he doesn't have the augmented mods on there, facepalms::

Well, whatever. That roll's still good, I'll keep it. Next time I have to roll I'll just remember I'm an idiot.

Should I be rolling Electronic Warfare + Sniffer, then?

Sorry for the absence there... A nondisclosure agreement prevents me from telling you whether or not my girlfriend and I were invited to the Lord of the Rings Online closed beta, but on a completely unrelated note, I've been playing computer games instead of posting. My bad.

It's cool, just make the occasional post in between raids or whatnot, and we'll be solid.

@Lamhslea

Posted. It's short, but dragging it out would have made it feel less tense, less immediate, and less frantic, I think.

Also, I'm really into this story. Is it bad that I'm a little bit more interested in a couple of the other stories than what I'm doing? That's a compliment to the others players, by the way, not a criticism of what's going on around me at the moment.