HERE are some maps of where we are right now.

If you can figure out how to insert me into the action, I'm ready.

yea, that is going to be tricky. I'll work on it.

@ all: Roll initiative. that snake ain't dead yet

EDIT:

@ notso: one day warning man.

everyone is getting kind of low

Professor's Attack of Will with Edge: 4 HITS, DV is 3.

Hey, it's all he has, folks.

Int 6 + Rea 3 = 9d6 = 1 hit

Initiative 10 =/.

Now, I'm under the impression that Professor still has that audio link going at the scene, so everyone should be aware that something is wrong almost immediately and I will reflect that in my post. I'm also under the impression that with his enhanced hearing and predatory nature, Jovan can recognize the sound of someone getting bitten in the throat (lots of practice with that sort of thing himself, you know). Is this correct?

Also, does telling the elemental to hunt down and destroy both the spirit (once he knows its a spirit) and its summoner count as one service, or two?

Yes, the audio is still on. I figured I was pushing it to act and punch. I didn't want to editorialize as well. Hmmm... I guess I should have rolled initiative? Aw, hell. Red-ROM, deal with it. I suspect Thirty got the thing anyway.

I'm not sure how you want to handle issuing orders as an action. If ordering counts as an action for each spirit, I may have done one or two simple actions too many. I can easily change that if necessary.

Thanks for the warning.

Initiative: 8 + 8d6.hits(5)=3 = 11

First round stop van. No extra actions in the real world
Second round swing at snake: Str/Will 3 + Cyber 4 = 7d6.hits(5)=3

Using the blimp's camera to watch the helicopter's crash site.

Sensor 6 +2 skill +3 attn coprocessor +3 actively looking = 14d6.hits(5) → [4,3,2,2,1,1,6,5,6,4,3,6,3,2] = (4)
If it's Intuition instead of Sensor, then that last die shouldn't really matter.
Blimp's camera has image mag, lowlight and thermal options, so hopefully that should mitigate most penalties.

Allright, I'll keep watching the thread! I don't mind sticking with Thirty, he's fun, just didn't wanna break the rules of Post or Die. When January rolls around, I'll post in OOC again and we can see what makes sense (whether it be revive Thirty or make a new guy, either way is fine with me).

OK, so here's the Initiative roll I should have done, after reading the post I should have read before posting on something I shouldn't have done yet.

2 HITS ==> Initiative 9.

@ Acme, SAint, and Notso: Today is the day!! I know Ferret might be waiting for a response to his action, but I won't be able to post until tonight.

@ J. Packer: It might take me a while to work you in. I apologize for the wait.

I'm trying to scope the helicopter scene and advance the clock until the SUV arrives to pick people up.

You're in combat, and we're rapidly approaching a major holiday. I'd be surprised if it was easy to get me involved!

@ Seph: issue commands is a simple action, going astral is a complex action

To each spirit?

unless its a group command (just like drones)

Ack, ack, if i can squeak in I will, I'm sorry, last few days work have been busy. Dunno why I'm so blah with things lately.

@ Acme: i need an initiative roll. Also, are you Banishing? you should roll for that too.Also, you are still about to die if you don't post today. You have to post twice in seven days to stay alive.

Round 1:
snake attacked, ferret stopped van, Jovan sent watchers, Professor attacked, Acme tried to banish(maybe?)
Oswald is not in this combat so far, keeping an eye on the crash site

Round 2: I need rolls from Acme to see who has initiative and to know weather the snake is still there...

@ Packer: You can throw up a "Day in the life" post up to the current time (in game) if you would like. I should be able to start working you in after this fight.

Somehow the message ate both rolls. I'm sorry, here's a new one.

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

Banishing:
8d6.hits(5) → [3,4,2,6,1,2,5,5] = (3)

And as far as posting again... I kinda need someone else to post so I'm not just double posting.

I'll get on that now then for you, unless you think J. Packer's post counts.

hmm. I understand that some things should happen. but Seph had to post like, 3 times while his character was sleeping. Sometimes you have to throw in a post about your character's thoughts or maybe a flashback or something to stay alive. I once posted a day in the life of a total nobody because I was waiting for everyone to do stuff, and I'm the GM. I guess I'm being a hard ass, but this is an all or nothing game, and I will go down with the ship. When I started this game, I thought I was just going to murder everyone. I had no hope that people would actually continue to post past the initial character creation, but here it is, 6 months later and still going. The only reason? I killed everyone that slowed it down. So you have less than a day. I'll post something shortly

@ the jason formally known as J. : I think two accounts is a no-no on this forum. I'm no administrator, just giving you a heads up

Son of a...

I, apparently, figured out my old account and posted using it accidentally. I'll talk to a mod and see if I can get them merged, or what's the best course of action.

So Seph is pulling the Earth Elemental off chopper duty and headed to the van?
Watchers are where?
One on the blimp. One hunting the mage. Third? Where?

I'm not thinking you're a hardass, ROM, I understand the concept completely. I think my problem is that I haven't been posting on DS as often lately so I have to physically remind myself to check on things. I'll try to rectify that in the future. Here's a roll for his second banishment.

8d6.hits(5) → [5,6,3,2,5,5,6,6] = (6)

Air, not earth.

One is following the mage, one is acting as escort for the blimp, one is standing watch over the Rover, and one is following the chopper survivor attempting to escape into the store.

@ Acme: ok, I was hand waving a bit on the banishing because I thought I was going to be killing you.
I'll skip the drain the 1st attempt and take away 3 services
spirit defense:[5,5,6,5,1,1,4,4] = (4)
, net 2 / drain = 8DV(I forgot wound modifiers, but it won't change the outcome )
roll for drain

edit

@ Saint: The van is puling in, are you bombing them? you can go ahead and roll that if you want. We'll make it one big attack and I'll probably do some scatter rolls... or are they airburst? The van is pulling up within 4 meters of the helicopter.

Mmph... And the die roller goes back to kicking me in the nards. Soooo many fours... T_T

7d6.hits(5) → [1,4,4,6,4,3,3] = (1)

So six drain, he's not gonna be very good going into the actual battle.

All right, time to eat an Edge for the remaining 6 dice.

*Edge Use- rerolling failed dice*

6d6.hits(5) → [3,2,5,2,1,3] = (1)

Oh come the FRAG on! Two hits in thirteen dice?!?

*Sigh* Ok, make that five drain taken.

Shamans. Phhtt. 8-2 = 5. Phhtt.

....

Well yeah, ok. Six drain. Even better. I think I know where my mind was, somehow I was taking 7 as my number 'cause that was the amount of dice I was rolling. Bleah. Still terrible to only get two hits. And what can I say, I've got a degree in history, not math.

Poor Acme. You must have the Gremlins quality (restriction: dice rollers) IRL, huh?

Yeah, tell me about it. Mmph.

Death from above attack on spirit: Str/Wis 3 + Spur 4 = 7d6.hits(5)=2 - okay maybe not 'death' from above!

Damn, things have been hectic lately. I forgot to mention the spirit was banished. sorry guys. We'll call it dead from Ferret's attack . tough break on the drain Acme.

They all evacuated the chopper, right? And moved into the nearby buildings for cover?

I was figuring they'd round up all their first-line combatants and stuff them into the van to head to the truck yard. My hope was to bomb them shortly after the van arrived in the hopes that the guys in the building would come running out to get in and drive off. If I'm late and more of them make it to the van, that's still more targets to hit at once. If I'm early, then it's a waste.

The Kull can cover one kilometer every ten seconds, so I'd want to bring it close enough that I can hit them about 3 combat turns after the car arrives on the scene. The grenades are just wi-fi enabled HE hand grenades. I was hoping to use the bombing skill (and Math SPU) to calculate the rate of drop and height to target, then time the grenades to go off at, or near, ground level. So, basically airburst? All this juryrigging mad science stuff puts the ball in your court.

Again, if you have a medkit on hand (and I know for a fact that Ferret does) then Oz can apply First Aid by remote.

Could have applied it on the first wound, same as this..
Remote healing DP= Command 6 +4 skill +2 hotsim +2 codeslinger +3 Nanites +3 kit -2 operating by remote -1 indoor = 17 dice for healing. Not shabby, imo.

Won't do any good. It's all Stun. We could prolly dope him up on slap patches for a few minutes, but that's about it.

Professor also has a medkit present, and a piddly First Aid 1 (but pool of 6) to help.

Wow. Just noticed how far back my second-to-last is!

ROM, did Jovan get an image of the magician's aura from the watcher before it was destroyed? If he is allowed by the rules to interpret an assensing that he did not do (not sure about that, but presumably it would work similarly to assensing one of those astral photograph things in Arsenal), then I assume Jovan could get an idea of the mage's Magic, whether he has any cyberware, whether he is secretly that ghoul that Acme saw earlier and no one else knows about, etc.

EDIT: Also, I tried to word Jovan's order in such a way as to only use the service if there was still a spirit when the elemental arrived on scene, but is the last service used up anyway?

You just can't use magical means to heal it. ..also there's an additional -2 for an awakened patient, so the final die tally would be 15. Still beats a pounding headache..

when the action comes around to him again, Professor tries First Aid on Thirty, looks like to Stabilize first:

First Aid 1 + LOG 5 + medkit 6 = 12 dice ==> 6 HITS

The Threshold for Stabilization is 2, so I'll apply the extra hits to speed up the Stabilization.

Huh. Guess they fixed that in 4th. Hey, First Aid away, I'm not gonna argue since Acme's gonna be dragged down with a total of -3 dice to his rolls right now.

@ Jovan: You still have a service for the air elemental. I tried to word it to say as much too. As far as the assensing, I don't know, The watcher can assense right? I don't know if your mental link can get a sense of the aura or not. I would roll an assensing for the watcher, then maybe you could try to use your assensing like a knowledge skill to interpret?

edit:

@ Acme: had you taken stun damage before? I had you down as 8 out of ten, which leaves you at 2/10. is that right?

@ Packer: I haven't come up with a way to work you in yet. It might be a little while. This is the hardest part of post or die, trying to come up with ways to work in the new people.

I should be at 7/10. I took six and had one floating around from the drain from the invisibility spell.

7 drain = 3/10 = three remaining out of ten. right?

Aw, hell, if you let me I'll post every time the in-game time advances enough for me to have something fun to say.

Hello everyone. Excuse me for interrupting. Is this the correct thread to introduce myself as a prospective player?

I'm an old table top shadowrunner from long ago. I am very much a noob in cyberspace but nowadays I am online with lots of time. Nice to meet you, cool game you have here.

If you give me an Ok I will start developing a character for your consideration. Thanks.