At least he is on our side.

Ooops! I hope that the silencer and lack of corpse prevents a panic on the rooftops..

ok, so we're knocking down buildings with one bullet? resists:[5,5,6,6,5,1] = (5)

net 5 boxes = 1 meter square hole = you knocked down a plastiboard "roof"

That is one tough roof.

Yikes! Next time I buy a tent it's going to be from Tent City's convenient location on the Glow City strip!

So, uh... what's the prize in that particular box of cereal?

Checking out the van, physical, then astral

5 HITS, 2 HITS (Oh, forgot to take into account the BC, but cutting off the last three dice doesn't change the astral results.)

@ROM: What's the status of Viper? Dumped or dead? I think Thirty is getting tired of lugging me around.

We're at Ferret's van. As soon as we know if it is safe, we will dump his comatose body in there.

@ Not: you take 3 boxes o' damage

Ip1: defense:[4,2,3,2,5,3,5] = (2)
(oops, -2 dice for damage)
soak 5 dv:[6,2,3,4] = (1)
CRASH!

@ Acme: You are about to die! I know you came in at a tough spot for a mage, but it'll get better.

@ Seph: you are also about to die!! It's night time dude. It's your time to shine.

Whole bunch of matrix actions before Ferret 'wakes up':

Load Medic - 1 pass
Repair icon (threshold 6) = Computer 4 + Medic 3 + Hotsim 2 - Damage 1 = 8d6.hits(5)=3, 8d6.hits(5)=2, 8d6.hits(5)=5 - 3 passes
Load Spoof - 1 pass
Spoof ID - Hacking 4 + Spoof 3 + Hotsim 2 = 9d6.hits(5)=4
Scan for hidden nodes on van (threshold 4) = EW 4 + Scan 3 + Hotsim 2 = 9d6.hits(5)=3, 9d6.hits(5)=4 - 2 passes (full scan is 15+, extended test, and would take a few more passes)
If he finds anything on the van, then analyze node: Computer 4 + Analyze 3 + Hotsim 2 = 9d6.hits(5)=4 - is it a bomb or tracking device?

Still here if you're willing to catch me. And yeah, haven't been meaning to zone out, just blargh lately.

yay! nobody's dead!

@ Notso evil: plenty of time for the medic and ID spoof. Your search of the van eventually turns up 2 RFID signals. their strong and encrypted (signal 3). After some time Decrypting, you'll discover a sensor tag looking out of the front grill of the van, and a tracking tag, transmitting coordinates.

Here's the knowledge roll for his statement with the gang locations.

5d6.hits(5) → [5,4,5,4,2] = (2)

Oh the irony.

Yeah but at least he can trust Professor better than a vampire. ;P

@ Acme: you have a general Idea about some crush related places, but nothing you've been to recently.

@ all:

Well. We're a little over four months into this "Post or Die" experiment. Our death rate has been cut in half, and this is now the most stable game I've ever played on Dumpshock. So I would like to to say thank you to all for coming along with this. Maybe this type of game will catch on

Anyway, what do you guys think? any suggestions? From my end, its a little more labor intensive, digging through posts and updating the death clock. Also, keeping every second of game time life threatening is a challenge, as well as working in new players (which you guys have been very helpful with). I do think it adds more to the story a little bit. It gives me a chance to throw out some different pieces of the puzzle, or show something from another angle. I really focus on posting enough to give you guys a chance to act (I'm not always successful, and timing has been a challenge). Hows the pacing feel for everybody? I think I'm waiting for you guys to make your next move at the moment, so I'm taking time to reflect.

The other thought I had was that the holidays are coming up (for me at least, I guess I shouldn't assume). Anybody got big plans that might get their character killed? Should we have some way to keep someone alive if they let us know before hand that they're going to be gone for a set time? I personally don't think I'm going anywhere without internet this year. I'm just putting the thought out there. Maybe they could get a super villain death, where they aren't really dead, and show up again when the player returns.

Exit pursued by a bear ->time passes-> enter wearing bearskin cloak?

I have come close to death once when I was on holiday and had no access, so would definitely appreciate the possibility to go offline occasioanally without dying. Although, we should always let everyone know upfront how long we will be away if we want to stop the death clock.

Otherwise, I am having lots of fun even if that is partly from hogging the limelight lately with my matrix antics.

hmm, there seems to be a bit of disagreement on how to proceed...

I'm OK with taking a break or whathaveyou. Work is still crazy for me, so my apologies if I haven't been posting as much or as well lately.

If things work out, we may reach a good point for a 'commercial break' soon. I don't mind continuing, but if folks need a break, I can live with that.... somehow. I'm having fun, too.

Sensor test spending a point of Edge to make sure the skies are clear, that is, provided I can get the full 10km ping from the R6 Radar. If it's not a straight up Sensor Test vs. Vehicle Infiltration opposed test, or I can't scan all of the heavens at once I'll want to redact the Edge use.

Sensor 6 +2 Perception +6 EDGE = 14d6.hitsopen(5,6) → [5,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,5,2,1,4,4,[6, 6, 1]] = (7) 7 hits vs regular vehicles. 5 hits vs drones and electric vehicles.
W/o edge, that's be 2 hits vs drone and 4 hits vs vehicle.

@ Saint: at 10 km's there's all kinds of shit popping up, mostly toward downtown, but nothing significant within 2 or three miles of the blimp. I know I switched to miles, you do the math.

edit: we're talking strictly air traffic here right?

2nd edit: I never got this straight either, what is VPN?

@ all: Taking a break!? I'll kill all of you!!
seriously, I didn't see the need for a complete shut down. Should we take a vote? I jinxed it when I said it was going good didn't I?

edit: looks like we could have mass burials by Monday...

They'll bury you before they bury me, big guy!

It's on page 83 of Unwired.

Here's the relevant info


Also, Radar normally would pull up info from ground vehicles, but only those in a direct line of sight (otherwise, it would make little sense to have it as a standard sensor in cars as per RAW, and if it could see through things, UWB would be less interesting.) At this point though, Oz is only concerned for the sky. He might note the cars and buildings, but he's got no idea what car to look for. That's going to be a visual test probably, using the lowlight/therm camera and his visual perception skill.

I vote to keep going, although it might be a good idea to have a death free period over xmas and new year. People could still post if they are around, but those of us with commitments wouldn't come back to a dead character in the new year.

Defaulting to Intuition to see if Ferret knows of a vehicle park nearby: 3d6.hits(5)=0 - apparently not.

This should be fun!

Memory Test, using Photographic Memory Quality to reduce Threshold by 1. I don't know whether the background count cutting out the Adept memory enhancements has a retroactive effect, so I won't count them.

LOG 5 + WIL 5 = 10 dice ==> 0 HITS

Well, then.

Please dont kill me! im at a model united nations conference in chicago, and internet at the hotel here is exhorbitantly priced and restricted. im posting from my phone right now.

@ Seph: to think, your phone post could have been used to save you...

I'm torn here, "giving an inch" and all that, How long is your league of model nations going to take? When will you be able to post again? (I see the Irony in my question) You're lucky your so far away from the action and inside Oz's rover, I'd hate to have to break more of Oswald's stuff to kill people. I'll give you a day, maybe I'll kill you "inconclusively"

i will be able to post tomorrow night / wednesday morning

Okay, putting the car back on autopilot and taking remote control of the blimp again.

Loading up the R3 Vehicle Identification Sensorsoft I purchased earlier and giving it a ping to identify the new flyer. By the way, what's the relative position of the bogey?

Sensor 6 + 3 soft = 9d6.hits(5) → [5,4,3,3,3,3,4,5,3] = (2)
I didn't use the attention coprocessor, but let me know if I can. The text says:



So, I don't even know if I should use the sensor rating at all, or if it's a test that can only use the camera, so I'd need to maybe take visual penalties for range and lighting and so forth. It might just be the first 3 dice on the test, in which case, it'll only be one hit. Might be 0 dice. I really hate the SR4 sensor rules especially with sensor softs...

Ferret's Head:
PAN Hidden, new access ID (shared with team), Hotsim
Response 4, Signal 3, Firewall 6, System 4
Stealth 3, Analyze 3, Scan 3, Edit 3, Spoof 3, Exploit 3, Command 3 (response -1)

Editing some choice video footage: 9d6.hits(5)=3
Spoofing ID for commlink to match video bug: 9d6.hits(5)=3
Replace Edit and Spoof with Encrypt and Decrypt.

Stealth 3, Analyze 3, Scan 3, Decrypt 3, Encrypt 3, Exploit 3, Command 3 (response -1)

Encrypt data for transmission on commlink
Hack account on video bug's node: 9d6.hits(5)=3 - will take another phase or two to get an account if necessary.
Command bug to stop transmitting / shutdown (and logoff damned fast in latter case): 9d6.hits(5)=3
Start commlink transmitting encypted data package on same ID as video bug.

NOTE: I could be taking some liberties with matrix rules here (or just doing it wrong). For example, might just be able to spoof the bug to shutdown. Let me know if I need to make any different / additional rolls.

After that I look for a truck park on Google!

@ Notso: yea, I'm not 100% on the RFID tags,but I think they're hardwired transmitters, no subscription, no accounts. I think you have to spoof the feed??

Edit: google points at a "Machitos" factory

@ saint: maybe sensor + intuition/pilot? I don't have anything but sr4a with me right now. so initiating hand wave:
it's a helicoptor!

@ Seph: YAAAAY

Approximate distance? It'd be good to have an idea of about how long until it's likely to be in engagement range.
Also, any indication as to the size of the chopper? Is it a 1-man, or a cargo/transport chopper?

Also, is it possible for me to get my Kull up in the air. Shit getting as serious as it is, I feel like the ability to drop a fuckton of grenade bomblets on an area could be a major asset, and one which they'd never see coming.

Attempt to spoof the feed:
Computer 4 + Spoof 3 + Hotsim 2 = 9d6.hits(5)=2 - maybe not enough so try again.
Computer 4 + Spoof 3 + Hotsim 2 = 9d6.hits(5)=2 - hmm, third time lucky?
Computer 4 + Spoof 3 + Hotsim 2 = 9d6.hits(5)=5 - hopefully that's enough

I'll already edit the post to make it a spoof attempt rather than a hack.

Two questions. Firstly, I know that trying to do anything physical while astrally perceiving incurs a -2 modifier, but is Jovan still able to communicate on his comm (subvocally, text, etc.) while astrally perceiving?

Secondly, does the RAW allow for the use of called shots for Levitate and general spellcasting ?

hey guys, Turkey day has been busy, and now I gotta work. But I will swing buy the house tonight and pick up my books and get posting

@ seph: while percieving, yes, projecting, no. as far as called shots, I think they are reserved for indirect combat spells, e.g. lightning bolt. It's their only advantage.

@ saint: its a good size chopper, but not a giant cargo one/ And I guess you can launch your kull.
here's how i see things, Ferret's van is heading NE towards tourist town, the chopper is circling east, the other truck is coming up from behind you guys about half a km. does that soud about right?

Air elemantal using Accident power on chopper, service 2 out of 3:[3,5,2,1,3,5,2,5,2,5,5,5] = (6)
, vs [2,3,4,3,3,6,6,1,6] = (3)

crash test - 6 : [3,2,4,2] = (0)

yikes

@ Ferret: we're getting closer with these matrix rules. It looks like what you're trying to do is under intercept traffic, sniffer + hacking vs firewall + System. We'll get it next time. I'll just say you got it for now.

You rock sephiroth!

Ferret's Head:
PAN Hidden, new access ID (shared with team), Hotsim
Response 4, Signal 3, Firewall 6, System 4
Stealth 3, Analyze 3, Scan 3, Decrypt 3, Encrypt 3, Exploit 3, Command 3 (response -1)

Scan of Machitos factory node: Computer 4 + Analyze 3 + Hotsim 2 = 9d6.hits(5)=2 - looking for firewall rating, IC.

If there are vehicles in parking lot, are they slaved to factory node?

Here's a sensor lock roll for the car.

8d6.hits(5) → [1,2,3,1,3,4,5,3] = (1)

I suppose I'll have the blimp run a signal capture on the car/driver as well. (assuming a slaved vehicle here..)
Looking at a threshold of 3. 6d6.hits(5) → [5,5,2,5,5,5] = (5) WUT?! Nasty! Does the blimp refresh a point of edge for that.

I just did that for jokes to see if Oz might catch another facefull of that Troll on Dwarf porn..

All right, casting Improved Invisibility- Force 4.

[6,1,3,6,1,2,4,2,3,1] = (2)

(Though I forgot the extra two dice for it being an illusion spell...) Looks fine, let's see that minty fresh feeling....

[4,2,4,1,2,1,6] = (1)

Son of a CRAPHOLE why does Inviz Castle always give me such crappy results?

If you've got a medkit, Oswald can operate it remotely. Heal that stun right up in a matter of seconds. Should be a R3 one in the van at least.

hey all: I'm working on a post now, I was waiting a bit to give everyone a chance to act.

@ Ferret: Firewall R3, No IC running at present. There's one sedan, not slaved. the trucks are salved to the warehouse node.

@ Saint: Sensor test defense: [4,1,3,4,5,3,1,6,4] = (2)
no lock

Radio scan reveals no signal from the truck, driving must be manual, and there's a mayday from the helicopter. The SUV is pulling back.

The blimp almost deserves edge...

@Acme: 2 stun? also, 2 hits won't fool electronic sensors (object resistance 3). would you like to roll the extra dice before its too late?

@ saint: wasn't sure if you were running decrypt

Yeah, I wasn't. I totally forgot how backwards the sig cap process is. You have to decrypt it before you can find it.. Bluh. I must have blocked it out..


With him breaking off, I suppose it's time for me to try and kill the vehicle.

Should we start with a surprise test?

An unusual calm comes over the people in the SUV. The burnt-out, rubbled surroundings take on a surreal beauty. Hair raises on the napes of their necks from the charge of the moment. Their breaths synchronize. If there is a moment that should be frozen in time, recorded in the cosmos as their greatest synchronicity with Gaia herself... this is it.