Thanks for the image BishopMcQ.

Fat Man is near Zerone with the non-stealthy group. The shen is hovering next to him on the astral.

Thanks for the postings of your positions - I had a rough night with our littlest - 3 1/2 hrs of sleep with little chance of a nap today so I will be posting either tomorrow or Friday by the latest. Hopefully everyone else can use the time to post their positions as well.

Thanks all!

Deep behind enemy lines, a covert ninja completely undetected...except for being strapped to a table and the experiments and all...

Hope you get some sleep.

I did thanks very much.
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Cypher is in the top cargo container of the 2 stack so you know BishopMcQ.

To use Eklipse's diagram...


Target container< Ayo. . . . . . Random container
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eklipse

Random container. . . . . . . Random container
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Twist

Not dead - had to take the kids in today for some minor procedures but it still took over 6 hours and I am beat. Will post tomorrow to get things back up and running. As usual do not forget your weekly drip of karma. See you all tomorrow.

Cluster fuck time!! (please let me know if this type of language offends)

Ok so Fat Man, Eklipse and Zerone all have delayed actions and your actions all go off at the same time:

Characters who have held an action and intervened in this manner go before anyone who is normally taking his action during that Action Phase. If multiple characters delay their actions until the same Action Phase, they act at the same time. Note that a delayed character can choose to intentionally act after another in an Action Phase

From the main book - so you all can unload on this poor soul or decide amongst yourselves in which order you all act.

Let me know!

Zerone will wait until someone else acts. However, if everybody else is as petulant as I am being, then Zerone will fire a stunbolt at the target.

Fat Man took a simple action to command the shen (this is the 2nd of its two services, although after this it will still hang out and maintain Concealment if needed). The shen can now take its Pass 1 action, which it uses to manifest in front of the guy with the SMG and look scary (Complex action), but it can't do anything else until next phase.

Fat Man takes his second simple action to look around on the astral plane (as a dual-natured being, he doesn't need to take any time to turn Astral Perception on/off); he's hoping to spot any enemy magicians or non-watcher spirits before they jump us. Assensing 10d6 (3 hits)

2 short narrow bursts:

Agility 5 + Automatics 3 + smartlink 2 - recoil 0 (2-2 pts compensation) = 10d6.hits(5)=3
Agility 5 + Automatics 3 + smartlink 2 - recoil 3 (5-2 pts compensation) = 7d6.hits(5)=2

If he hits, base damage for each burst is 7P (5+2 for narrow bursts)

22 rds remaining

Casting Stunbolt at Force 3 on the guard:
Magic(6) + Spellcasting(3) + Power Focus(3) + Mentor Spirit(2) = 14d6 for 6 hits total, but only 3 count.

Edit: Resisting Drain of (3/2) - 1 = 1
Willpower(4) + Charisma(5) = 9d6 for 2 hits. All drain resisted.

Cypher/BishopMcQ go ahead and give me a Perception roll please to get the 411 on your environment.

I have a table top game tonight (GM again) but I will be posting tomorrow afternoon after the dentist (OUCH!) to move things along.

7d6.hits(5) → [5,3,3,3,6,1,5] = (3)
(Perception 4, Intuition 4, AIPS -1)

I'm not sure if we're playing with the optional rule that you add net hits to drain for direct combat spells (Buddha?), but if we are, you add net hits, ie, your hits minus the target's hits on Willpower+Counterspelling, not all your hits.

One other note, to add to what Umaro said, Direct Combat spells are resisted straight against the Spellcasting Test. The guard would roll Willpower (+ Counterspelling if present) versus the hits on the Spellcasting Test. Net hits from that, would then add to the damage with a base of Force, but there is not a soak test against Force + Hits. The Soak Test would only be for indirect combat spells like Fireball, or Lightning Bolt.

Thanks, my bad. I'm new to the system. Fixing my post.

No worries, JxJxA. But we should also wait for Buddha to weigh in if we are using the optional rule. If not, you may not have taken any stun.

Awesome, thanks guys.

Still here - probably should have mentioned I was down a dad this week with Fenris traveling again on business. I will look up the rule and give you my ruling (get it rules - ruling - funny.....) about it. I will have a post up by Saturday morning at the latest - very sorry. I am aiming for tomorrow night though barring any child related catastrophes.

Ok sitting down to post - on the rule since I don't mind mages casting a lot I am going to not use the optional rule.

Ayo 1st burst: 2 hits (base power 7P) 2nd burst: 1 hit (base power 7P)

Some more hidden movement and Twist its your turn!

Kat Doktor still covering the rear, I will wait until my turn to post.

Cool, I appreciate the ruling. It'll make me a little less hesitant to lash out in combat.

Psst--JxJxA--Good news, no drain from the test.

Thanks for the reminder, Bishop.

Just as a quick check before I scrabble around remembering how lethal SR4 combat can be, should I assume they succeeded on the Perception check to see me with the Rhuthenium? Just wanted to make sure. Assuming they can, I'm dodging

Reaction (7) to dodge first attack (7d6.hits(5)=4)

Dodging second shot, Reaction(7) - 1 for second dodge in a combat round. (6d6.hits(5)=0)

Annnnnd, looks like I'm eating that to the face. Here's my damage resistance roll, versus 7DV + 1 net success:

Ballistic(12) + Dermal Deposits(1) + Body(3) (16d6.hits(5)=3)

Wow, so I'm thinking my character concept might be shorter lived than originally anticipated But hey, the most interesting characters are the ones that go out in those brief explosions of brilliance...or brief hails of gunfire

I'm AFB at the moment, so I'll roll dice once I know what the modifiers are.

Question: I can't recall if moving up (not running) counts as a simple action or if it is always a complex action.

Firing Mods that I can remember (or, at least think I remember, feel free to correct this:)
Skill +4
Agility +11
Smartlink +2
Attacker moving -1
Target has cover -2
Total: 14 dice

Walking should be a free action, Standing Up is the only one listed as a Simple. Does Twist have Low-Light? (Presuming Partial Light, Low Light gives no penalty, Regular or Thermo gives a -2)

She's an elf with no cyber-eyes, so...yep.

Firing Pistol at mook #1 (14d6.hits(5)=2)
Firing at Mook #1, -1 recoil penalty (13d6.hits(5)=2)

Happy Mardi Gras y'all!!

As usual don't forget your weekly drip of 1 karma. I will be working at a family friend's costume shop today to help with the mask and bead selling but if dead at all will post this afternoon and if not then tomorrow afternoon for sure after I pick up the kids from school.

Ok my bad forgot about the Perception modifiers so there were two bursts shot at you but both failed to connect - will edit the post to reflect this. Please always feel free to remind me of things y'all I appreciate it and it's easy to lose track or at least it is for me with PbP games.

Cypher - you're up!

Infiltration 2, Agility 4 6d6.hits(5) → [2,6,6,6,1,2] = (3) as I try to be very, very quiet.

Happy Monday all!

Don't forget to add the weekly drip of karma for the new week. I will be posting tomorrow - my computer has to go into the shop this afternoon and get a something put on it to make it work - I really have no idea but that's what tech support says (my husband).

Thanks all!

Ok Kat Doktor is up!

Happy Monday all!

Well I am giving Kat Doktor till tomorrow to post then I am just going to keep on posting along. Can I get people to reply in this thread to see who is still here and paying attention? Thanks!

Don't forget your weekly drip of 1 karma.

Aye. As a quick note, my school starts up on the 28th, MWF are light, but T/Th I may be offline.

Eklipse is still facing off against the dragon spirit. Time seems to have frozen. Some weird combination of adrenaline and enhanced senses.

Present!

I'm here, still debating on Zerone's next course of action.

Buddha, can PCs speak outside of their turns? I'd have Zerone shoot off a text to let the group know that the one guard most of us can see is magically protected if possible.

You can indeed talk outside of your action as long as you keep it brief.

Cool

There. At least it bumped the thread back up.

Here.

I am here....misses that post. Will be formulating IC response.

Welcome back!

What actions are you taking?

Kat D is basically holding his actions.

I'm here as well! And un-shot, which is awesome

I will be posting tomorrow - I was up from 1 am till 9:30 am with my youngest child and then had a table top game to run tonight. I will be posting the next pass of the initiative order.

Thanks all!

Initiative Order:

Amara 18/1 IP
Mystery Person #6 17/1 IP
Mystery Person #5 16/1 IP
Fat Man 15/2 IP
Ayo 14/2 IP
Mystery Person #4 14/1 IP
Shen 14/1 IP
Eklipse 13/1 IP
Mystery Person #1 13/1 IP
Zerone 13/2 IP
Widget 12/2 IP
Mystery Person #3 12/1 IP
Mystery Person #2 11/1 IP
Mystery Person #7 11/2 IP
Twist 10/2 IP

Kat Doktor Holding one action from the last IP

Amara is up!

Can Amara see the Spirit of Earth?