Heh.. I was just making a Futurama reference, but I guess it does work alright.

Glad to see some people are still around, but I'm sorry to see that I don't have many submissions, despite how much interest there was earlier.

Hoping that'll change, but I'm afraid that people lost interest or simply forgot about this due to it being so long to get started. I think on Friday I'll do another new recruitment post. All the posts on this thread might be intimidating people.

I'm still around, but you picked the very day of my wedding to start Have you tried to send PM reminders?

The Mongooses win by default!! Lucky Eddie gets to pay of the mob! He lives!!! YAY!

... oh.... we're not the only team?

I still have not finished writing up my character, but a few PMs to some other members regarding forming a team have gone unanswered. So until there are available players to make a team... I do have a slight issue though.

Its extremely difficult to form a team that will work well together, as you have to give enough information to give a potential team mate an image of your character, but not enough that you give your concept away, incase you end up fighting against that player.

For example, pbangarth pretty much knows my character concept to a tee (without stats), we were discussing a while back of forming a team and unfortunately he got a better offer and joined some other players (please see The Mongooses).
He seems like an okay guy so I doubt it will be an issue of him blabbing or using it as in-game knowledge, but it makes me hesitant to tell anyone else what my character is about (while trying to form a team) - I may not be that lucky next time.
This is because it really defeats the purpose of playing this character (ie, no fun for me) because the 'mysterious' factor for contestents makes my concept work. If it doesnt exist, it won't. I know there is an advertising thing to take account for each contestent, but the 'mysterious' factor can still be applied there easily and strongly - in fact, some viewers might like that with some characters.

You can all point fingers and say 'I'm taking it too seriously' or something, but I have a general concern and would like some help dealing with it.

I have every intention of playing, but I would like some help or suggestions on how to join up with some players, easier without giving my concept away. By no means am I saying my character concept is anything special though...

Tell people what you're looking for in a team mate rather than what you're bringing to the table?

That may work.

As I said to nemafow earlier, the first clue I will know her PC is around is when mine is suddenly dead.

That works. You can also start with 'I'm playing an assassin/mage/sniper/rigger/hacker/gun bunny/etc' when forming up the team, then when everyone is in and the team is fairly set, you can get into more specifics that you need for proper group cohesion.

I for one don't think you're taking it too seriously. I am dealing largely in secrecy as well after all, and am relying on it for several things.

Glad to see there are at least some more people around

Is there any up-to-date roster of PCs still looking to form a team?

If the game is still going and looking for players I would like to submit 1 or 2 characters, I don't intent to play multiples, I just like giving the gm options.

Well as mentioned earlier, I'm still looking for a group, I guess the closest SR4 'class' for my character would be a B&E specialist.

I can run a bow adept or a sniper, either has some infiltration and close quarters, rebuilding old characters from SR4 to 4A currently.

The Mongooses are locked and loaded, backpacks stuffed, ready to go.

Can we just kill time by hunting Enforcers for bonus cash?

That's my boy!

Well, looks like I'll be running a couple extra teams, as it will only be 2 teams and the enforcers otherwise. Throwing up the IC post.

There you are. Feel free to post your character introductions, and once all three team mates have been introduced, the team introduction as a whole.

WAAAAAARRRRIIIIOORRRSS!
COOOME OUT TO PLAAAAAAYYY-AAAAAYYY!!

Ok, now for the last teammember of the Mongooses:

Name:
Fitz

Race:
Pixie

Physical Description:
A male pixie that wears a Chameleon Suit, a Monocle (looks like a Scouter from DBZ) and a Quick-Draw Hip Holster with a hold-out pistol (gilded and with ivory grip plate).
He flutters though the air nervously most of the time, reminding of a hyperactive colibri.
The hood of the Chameleon Suit hides his face, except for the eyes, like a balaclava. It seems that he doesn't want to reveal his identity in Shadow Wars.
He is even smaller than Lucky Eddy, but his voice is rather deep, if you consider his body size.

Character intro:
Fitz is a devoted collector of teeth. He has stored big quantities of them in the place where he lives. In his sparetime he flies though the city, and uses his Detect[Teeth] spell to find out if children have put a tooth under their pillow. Then he uses magic to get into the house, takes the tooth, puts some Nuyen under the pillow and disappears without a trace. (Unless he gets caught in a preserving jar, which he hates.)
He participates in Shadow Wars to be able finance this hobby. Five million Nuyen divided by three? Thats a lot of teeths!
He was born in a forest in the Allied German States, but fell out with his parents and moved to a city. Apart from his hobby, he also works as a runner from time to time.

Garvel, I think some of this is supposed to go into the Shadow Wars: the greatest game on earth thread.

So what's the story, folks? Do we only have one team? Are The Mongooses going to have to go hunting Enforcers to make any money??

EDIT: 'Cause Lucky Eddie's gotta win the game or The Mongooses by themsleves hafta kill three Enforcers for Lucky Eddie to live 5 minutes past the end of the game.

Hmm, I thought we had a few other teams, but I noticed that one of the people had their team drop on them so they dropped, and another team was a one player team and the player has vanished.

I had really hoped this would be at least five teams, and I only have two teams made up to fill in the gaps (on top of the enforcers). I can make some extra teams, but it will take time, and right now I don't have quite that much extra time today. I should have some time this week though.

It should make gameplay slightly easier though, since I don't have to keep player team's actions secret from one another.

So, temporary pause on the strip till I can get more teams together.

Does this mean there will be The Mongooses and four NPC teams?

Yep. Maybe more teams, but some will likely be very low powered and there just to fill space and get slaughtered for entertainment.

This should have dawned on me sooner. You know what really happened, Karoline? The others figured it out. Risking death for a big payoff was worth it. But they were up against The Mongooses. That's not a risk.

That's suicide.

Obviously. Don't worry though, the Enforcers are still there.

Are the enforcers automatically hunting us, or are they there to enforce the rules and punish those who break them? As well as being targets for suckers, of course.

They aren't (generally) hunting you. They are there to enforce rules and be sucker targets. There are potentially special events where one or more of them will be assigned to take out one or more players, but it is a timed event, and the player knows it is active.

As I think I mentioned previously, breaking a rule (depending on the rule) will get you lit up (Current position broadcast to the other players) and a bounty on you, and get the full enforcer team on you.

Heh, that would be good for the ratings!

Stop revealing the secret mechanism behind that and go post in Northern Gateway

So..... Should the Mongooses take their 5 million and walk?

So I guess the show has taken place. Is there a transcript?

Will there be another tournament?

No it hasn't been played, but nothing has happened in a month+ real time, so I was wondering whether this game had gone the way of so many other online games.

I think the problem is that Pbangarth is the only one who made characters and actually introduced them. Everyone else bailed. I think Karoline didn't feel like running the thing with only 1 contestant.

Actually, my team, the players being myself, Saint Sythney and Garvel, all posted our characters for our team, the Mongooses. Karoline was considering playing our team through against some NPC competition. That's what I was wondering about.

I've done work on additional NPC teams actually, and do still plan on running it. I'll be re-kicking this off on the 17th.

Snow has pushed back the proposed starting date of the game.

I assume this is snow in South Dakota?

Will you announce in the IC thread?

Not South Dakaota, but you're in the entirely wrong part of the country

IC post will be an introduction of the other teams.

I'm ready! Christmas is coming up rapidly (Even in Rapid City...) so there may be a break in the hectic posting we have been doing in this thread.

I'll be away from computer most of today and tomorrow. Merry Christmas all.

Well, several days without internet has pushed the start back some, but has given me time to do a fair few things. So, without further delay on my part, we begin at last. And yes, there is even a pixie sized parachute, complete with both an Evo and Shadow Wars logo.

What are the chances Team #8 really is MIA?

Congratulations, you've all survived to the start of the games

While flying through the city, you may each make 3 (vision) perception tests. With each test I want you to indicate things that you're looking for (Nice buildings, car lots, grocery stores, etc). If you have a knowledge skill relevant to what you're looking for (Knowledge skill about junk yards when looking for junk yards) then you may roll the knowledge skill and apply hits as a bonus to the relevant perception test, basically allowing you to aid yourself. You may not pick the same thing to look for more than once.

You may trade some, none, or all of your perception tests to try and make maps of the city as well. Each perception test that you trade in will give you a navigation test instead. More hits will indicate a better map. If you have an Orientation System, in addition to the +2 bonus it gives you to Navigation, each perception test you trade in will grant you 2 navigation tests.

I also want a single (vision) perception test each apart from all that.

Fast Eddie will use his three perception tests to look for particular urban features, using vision magnification and vision enhancement where appropriate.

I Assume Shadow Wars is the appropriate Invisible Castle campaign.

1) Architecture Knowledge Skill to find buildings that have good visibility (windows, ledges, roof gardens, etc.)
INT 5 + Architecture 1 = 6 dice ==> 2 HITS

Perception Test: 18 + 2 = 20 dice ==> 6 HITS

Hmmm... should I have added 3 dice for looking for something in particular? Nah... scanning the whole area.

2) Urban design Test to determine locations with lots of lines of sight
INT 5 + Urban Design 1 = 6 dice ==> 3 HITS

Perception Test: 18 + 3 = 21 dice ==> 7 HITS

3) Sewer design test for places where major sewers should intersect (maybe vision mag helps here?)
INT 5 + sewer design 2 = 7 dice ==> 3 HITS

Perception Test: 18 + 3 = 21 dice ==> 6 HITS

Now, if there is a place with all three... Bingo!

4) General visual Perception Test: 18 dice ==> 3 HITS -- Ptthhhhht!

Inti 5 + 2 navi + 2 nanites + 2 orientation system = 11 dice for navigation
First 2 tests.
11d6.hits(5) → [5,2,4,2,5,3,2,3,6,1,2] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [4,2,5,1,1,4,5,3,3,3,3] = (2)

If 5 hits isn't enough to resolve a high quality map, I suppose I'll do another couple rolls.

11d6.hits(5) → [4,3,1,6,2,3,5,1,4,4,6] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [6,1,2,4,3,2,6,5,3,2,1] = (3)
So that's 11 hits in total

I feel alright there.

Going to look for evidence of ammo dumps or vehicles placed by the people running the games.
Int 5 +2 skill +2 vis spec +3 vis enhance +3 Attn coprocessor +2 nanites +1 sideways =18 dice

18d6.hits(5) → [2,2,4,6,6,5,4,5,6,1,4,4,2,1,3,4,2,2] = (5) still rolling shallow.


General percep test

18d6.hits(5) → [5,4,1,3,4,1,1,5,6,4,1,5,6,2,5,5,5,6] = (9) That's how you do it!

Fitz will switch to astral perception, and check if there are auras falling out of helicopter 8. If he doesn't know which one is helicopter 8, he checks instead if there are auras falling out of every helicopter.
He will also check if there are any things visible on the astral plane in the city, like patrolling ghosts, wards on buildings, areas of high backgroung count, or auras of living beings. He wants to do this thorough, so he will use two tests for it.

Test for Auras of Helicopter 8: 7 dice => 3 hits

First test for atral plane of the city: 7 dice => 5 hits

Second test for atral plane of the city: 7 dice => 1 hit

General visual perception test (will be astral perception again): 7 dice=> 4 hits

Thanks to the quality of BT's map, please feel free to go to google, go to the map section, and type in Rapid City, SD and check out that for the basic layout of the city. The Arcology is where the civic center is indicated, the unknown building in the west should be easy to pick out, and the two tall office buildings area at South Park Elementary School (3rd street and Indiana street) and what looks like an empty lot (Lemmon Ave and College Ave). Oh, and the mall is where the mall is, right next to the Arcology.

The buildings aren't exactly the same, but they should be accurate enough based on the map that BT managed to make up.

The city itself doesn't constitute a BC, but there are many areas within it that do. Notably the area around the mystery building and the arcology both have a BC that looks like it'll get stronger as it gets closer. Both are positive background, eddies will be positive background. The only negative background to be seen from the sky is the large desolate area near the mystery building in the west.

Now, I need to know what you plan to do with your parachutes, and then give me a parachuting roll. Low altitude spec can be applied if you want to pull late, and recreational can be applied if you want to pull early, either can be applied between 400 and 600m up.

I think that's everything for now.