Meh, I might as well try assensing the package outside Zerone's door for a residual astral signature.

Assensing(2) + Intuition(3) = 5d6 pool for 2 hits.

Hooray, that went a lot better than I thought it would!

I have a vision of 10 astral forms/ninjas/drones buzzing the same meeting place all at once and going WTF.

LOL!!

Ok I will be posting Friday in the daytime with answers to rolls etc.

Thanks all for the timely responses and great posts. Don't forget your weekly drip of karma for this week.

So, is this the first Karma point, or second? I wasn't sure if it officially started last week or not.

This would the second.

No post today was up for 6 hours last night with the Butter Bean (my 16 month daughter) as JxJxA can attest since he was over for part of it. I will be throwing up the post tomorrow afternoon after our big Family Lunch. Sorry all.

Heh, maybe I should have left the Conan the Barbarian music on. She seemed pretty happy while that was playing.

Well good, I still need to post, heh. Sorry about this constantly being behind, Buddha.


Annnnd. Hopefully I got the bad rolls out of the way, because his general perception roll came out crap. DX
7d6.hits(5)→ [1,2,2,3,3,2,1]=0

Ok post is up with replies to IC actions and the results of dice rolls. You have till Wednesday to post any follow up rolls/questions. If you have none I would for everyone to post their arrival at the temple in the IC thread.

Thanks all!

Uhh.. Bhudda, Spade didn't look at the device, he was going to the temple to do some pre-meet surveillance.

I love spellcheck sometimes. I'd like to search the ShadowSEA about this black-market sandwich shop.

LOL!

Acme - Sorry about that I will correct the post this morning.

Corrections made. Let me know if you all have any other questions.

Corrections made. Let me know if you all have any other questions.

Kat D search on local Yakuza history
Datasearch 2 hits

I don't know what the appropriate skill would be for James already knowing who they are, I'm guessing it should be Connections+Connections but feel free to roll something else instead.

Connection+Connections (4) = 2 hits and a glitch (6,6,1,1)

Making inquiries - since it's dawn now, and we're meeting at noon, James probably has about 3 hours available for this, so he can make 3 rolls for the extended test. I'm not sure if you want to apply the -1 per continuation rule for extended tests so I'm adding the 3 dice that would be lost in seperately.

Connection(2)+Charisma(4) = (6,5,4) = 1 hit, 1 hit, 2 hits, and if there's no penalty being applied for continuation, it would be 6,6,6 and he'd get another 2 hits from the last 3 dice. So either 4 hits (no information) or 6 hits (easy information).

If he finds out or knows anything he might not want to share: Opposed Charisma (4) + Negotiation (4) = 2 hits, vs Charisma (6[augmented])+Negotiation (1) + Loyalty (4) = (11) = 6 hits. So he will share the information if he has any.

Forgive me, I'm still trying to figure this system out, but what would be the appropriate skill for asking people in the area about the temple? Zerone is going to make a "hail mary" attempt to talk with people about the killing. Would that be etiquette or negotiation? I guess it doesn't really matter since I'm going to have to default, but I'd like to know for the future...

Also, one hour before arrival, Zerone will summon a watcher spirit at Force 3 to give it 3 hours of life:
Summoning (3) + Magic (6) = 9d6 for 3 hits.

Resisting drain of 3 with a pool of Willpower (4) + Charisma (5) = 9d6 for 3 hits.

Zerone will instruct the Watcher Spirit (he'll call it a malakhim for theurgy flavor ) to 1) follow him and 2) notify him through the mental link if anyone is attempting to assense or is assensing Zerone.

Want me to post that short conversation between Zerone and the Cherub?

Message to Nomad sent Text/Encrypted (Rating 5.)

Departing to meeting location in GMC Bulldog Step-van. Self+wheelchair secured in rear, Evo Orderly in driver's seat.

Clothes: Flats
Armor: Ares Industrious Coveralls (5/4)
SIN: Fake (4)
Mobility: Transys Steed
Escort: Renraku Manservant-3 (holding backpack)
Weapons (backpack): Defiance Protector, Ares Predator IV (Stick-n-Shock ammo, no supperssor)
Commlink: Transys Avalon (res: 4 / sig: 4 / sys: 4 / fw: 4) hidden, proxy through disposable commlink (res: 1 / sig: 3 / sys: 2 / fw: 1.)
Firewall will trigger an audible tone on skinlinked earbuds and then close all connections upon detecting unauthorized access.
Eyes: Glasses
Ears: Earbuds
Hands: AR Gloves
Other: Emotitoy minidrone, Biomonitor, electrode net
Backpack: Weapons, Micro flare launcher, Medkit, RFID tags, Security RFID tags, Stealth RFID tags, RFID tag eraser, Shiawase Kanmushi (2), MCT Fly-Spy (2).

The Fly-Spy is slightly upgraded.
Scanning would be Sensors 4 + Clearsight 3
Keeping out of sight would be Pilot 4 + Covert Ops 4

Eklipse is wearing his FFBA (without the mask) and PPP forearm guards and shin protectors under his cheap long coat. He is wearing his contacts and commlink, which is set to hidden mode. All his other gear is in the duffel bag, which along with his bike helmet, he will hand off to the monk if the man shows Eklipse somewhere safe to store it. Yes this could mean that he is going into the meet unarmed (hehe).

Perception test to notice anything out of place
Intuition + Enhanced perception - Defaulting = 4d6.hits(5)=1

Japanese test
Intuition + Japanese = 6d6.hits(5)=2

Stealth check (he is not sneaking, just trying to blend in).
Agility + Stealth (Shadowing) = 8d6.hits(5)=3

Assesning the temple:
Assensing(2) + Intuition(3) = 5d6 for 2 hits.

Asking people in the area general information about the temple (Defaulting)
Charisma(5-1) = 4d6 for 2 hits.

Visual perception: Visual Perception Roll [Int 3 + Per 3 + Vis Enhance 3] (9d6.hits(5)=5 hits)


Olfactory perception: Olfactory Perception [Int 3 + Per 3 + Olfactory Booster 3] (9d6.hits(5)=4)

Bleh, and language roll: Logic 2 + Japanese 1 (3d6.hits(5)=1)

RULES LAWYER ALERT: Language is linked to Intuition, not Logic. But one success is enough for basic understanding.

Fat Man's language check: Japanese (2) + Intuition (3) = (5) = (2 hits).

Oops, I should do a language check, too:
Linguasoft-Japanese(4) + Intuition(3) = 7d6 pool for 2 hits.

Twist is wearing her "Meet" gear:
Street Clothes (Jeans and a button-down shirt)
Armor - Concealed Set (Lined Coat, FFBA w/ NC 4)
Public Commlink w/ Fake SIN (Rating 4)
Private Commlink (skinlinked, no Wireless)
Ares Predator IV (concealed under the coat)
Glasses
Earbuds
AR Gloves

Skill Checks:
Gambling
Profession.Gambling 5 + Logic 3 (8d6.hits(5)=2) (Glitch)

Perception.Visual
Perception 3 + Intuition 4 + Enhanced Vision 3 (10d6.hits(5)=6)

Perception.Audio
Perception 3 + Intuition 4 + Enhanced Hearing 3 (10d6.hits(5)=4)

Language Japanese
Language.Japanese 3 + Intuition 4 (7d6.hits(5)=2)

Etiquette
Etiquette (Default) 2 (2d6.hits(5)=2) (LOL, that's just silly.)

Kat D meeting clothing/gear

Ok posting right now sorry the house all got sick - me, hubby, and the two kids but we're all on the mend so I will be posting like a fiend to catch up.

JxJxA feel free to post your interaction with spirits since I don't want to bungle the flavor of your magic especially in SR where the magician's belief shapes all of it.

Ok some more posts up I should have time to get the intro post up tomorrow in the late afternoon/early evening of everyone's arrival at the temple.

Thanks, Buddha.

FYI, just in case the last e-mail didn't have my character, I put a link in my sig to my cast of shadows post. Zerone is the third PC listed. I'm also dumb and just realized that a glass cannon elf probably can't easily sport an armored jacket, so I'll probably be ditching that in the near future...

Post are up and I think I got everyone's questions/rolls answered. Obviously if I missed one please let me know.

I would like all the players to throw up a post here in this thread with a description of your character for the other players. Be sure to include visible scars, tattoos, deformities etc. Something that captures the flavor of your character so people get an idea what or they are meeting with.

Thanks all!

I want to wrap up Twist and Webcrawler's intro to the meet so hopefully they'll respond in the next few days so I can bump us to the actually meeting.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Zerone "Zero" Rhomicron

A frail, gaunt, young-looking elf who stands approximately 5'8" tall. He has dirty blond hair that he wears at shoulder length and parted in the middle. He has deep-set hazel eyes and a thin mouth that often twists into a simple smile. He usually wears cheap street clothes---t-shirts and jeans. He has no scars, tattoos or piercings visible. Because of his asthma, he occasionally breaks into a light coughing fit.

"Follower of the Way"

Zerone's mentor spirit, Follower often stays on the astral plane. When he does manifest in the physical world (or if someone astrally perceives him), Follower takes the appearance of a hovering bright white globe with a four-pointed, cross-like star burst.

Oh and Zerone too - wrapping up his intro post.

Twist is relatively plain for an elf, meaning she's moderately attractive. She has short reddish brown hair, which she wears loose. She has very pale skin. She is wearing a long leather trench-coat, open in the front, with a white button-down shirt and a thin blue tie under it. Her movements are relaxed, smooth and very graceful. Her face is partially hidden by dark wraparound glasses, but what can be seen wears a neutral expression as she looks around the place.

Despite all of that, her body language betrays nervous tension that is all the more noticable next to the implacable calm of the monks. She is obviously concentrating on paying attention to her surroundings.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2719/twist2.jpg

Intuition (6) + Assensing (4) + [Specialization 2, if Aura Reading is involved] = 10d6 or 12d6 for 2 hits either way.

Fat Man
Fat Man is short and heavy, shaped about like a barrel with small legs but long arms. He has a short beard and pale, snow-white hair, except for some black patches on the sides and on his moustache. He looks like he’s in his 30s, although it’s hard to say for sure. He's currently chewing on a large wad of Betel gum. He's wearing a fashionable neo-Victorian steampunk-style suit, complete with mirrored goggles and a top hat.


[Only if astrally perceiving]
Fat Man has a visible astral form that looks like a giant panda.

Did you use CoH to make this?

Oh and Eklipse looks like Nightcrawler from the X-Men (comic not the movies), but in a corp suit or form fitting body armor with a S-K logo on it. Here's the best image I could find: Nighcrawler by Sairobi on Deviantart. Note that he's currently wearing a cheap duster over the FFBA and depending on whether or not he's managed to offload his gear somewhere safe, may also be carrying a motorbike helmet and a duffel bag with some strange weapon-like lumps in it.

Threading up stealth a bit
Software 3 + Analytical mind 2 + Resonance 5 = 10d6 → [3,2,3,1,6,3,2,3,5,6] = (34)
Raises Stealth CF to 8
Resisting Fading Charisma 4 + Resonance 5 = 9d6 → [5,3,4,3,6,6,2,6,5] = (40)
All stun resisted.

Hacking on the fly, crawler drone, admin access vs firewall, extended test....not sure how long it will take so here are 4 sets of rolls
Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + analytical mind 2 - sustaining 2 = 8d6 → [3,6,5,4,1,2,5,1] = (27)
3 successes
Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + analytical mind 2 - sustaining 2 = 8d6 → [1,5,6,6,6,1,1,2] = (28)
4 successes
Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + analytical mind 2 - sustaining 2 = 8d6 → [4,5,4,6,5,1,6,4] = (35)
4 successes
Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + analytical mind 2 - sustaining 2 = 8d6 → [6,4,5,4,1,6,5,6] = (37)
5 successes

3-4 complex actions should give me access assuming my Stealth CF didn't fail me.

Spats
A young elven male 1.9m and 75kg or so. Physically he is nothing out of the ordinary, moderately toned but not enough to stand out in the crowd, nor does he show any of the signs of having abnormal reflexes. . He does have the typical charm and good looks of the elven, black hair cropped short and clean shaven, hazel eyes, and a dark enough tan that he obviously has some gotten enough sun. He usually dresses informally, a light hooded duster over basic work cloths though he does have a pair of white Victorian styled spats covering the tops of his boots.

Gear wise at the moment:
Comlink
(Comlink – Renraku Sensei, satellite link, Os – Mangadyne Deva)
w/ gloves, earbuds, and glasses.
(Glasses, image link, flare compensation, smartlink, vision enhancement 1)
Form-Fitting Body Armor, Half Suit, Nonconductive 3 B4I1
Light Long Coat, Chemical Protection 3, Fire Resistance 3 B4I3
Yamaha Pulsar Taser
1 spare clip
Fake SIN rating 4
Fake License rating 4

Yep! Not perfect, but close enough to get the idea across.

Buddha, was that the kind of response you were looking for? I'll fix it if necessary.

JxJxA Totally fine doing some posting right now.

Ok some more posts up but I have some stuff to do tonight (I admit raiding in World of Warcraft but daddy needs his epics). When all done I will throw up some more posts mostly around the drone encounter.

Thanks all!

Poke Arthas in the nose for me. My guild can't down him, yet. Weeks we've been beating our heads against him!

Thanks for the vote of confidence but tonight is just me gearing up toons - as a stay-at-home dad I was able to rack up 10 characters (one of each class). I got my last post up for Spats and I will keep an eye out for a reply - no pressure I know I have been posting a lot over the weekend,

Observe in Detail

Perception Test 3 Hits

6 in height, and 150 pounds in weight. He is covered in about 1 inch fur in a grey and black tabby pattern, ears are like those of a large cat, head hair is cut short and well groomed, parted down the right side. A Tan Mustache and Black Goatee of moderate length, both going the edge of his jaw line.

Wearing a set of electronic shades, lens color is Mirrored Metallic Bright Bronze color. No visible jewelry being worn.

Red Hawaiian Jungle Bird Patterned Shirt. Red Jungle Bird Hawaiin Shirt Dark Green Pleated Slacks with wide cuffs.

Engrave Datajack behind left ear.

Jonathan "Ayohuhisdi (Ayo)" Running Spots

A slightly taller than average figure, well built but not overly muscled, most only see the baklava-style mask from a full suit of form fit, along with the gloves covering his hands. Anyone that sees him without the mask will obviously noticed the short, smooth fur that covers his entire body, the slightly deformed mouth with a full set of carnivores fangs, and the emerald green eyes with the slitted pupils. Less obvious, but noticeable as well, are the rows of short spikes of bone that curve along the upper edge of his cheek, and up either side of the bridge of his nose and up his forehead.

Null Pointer Exception

Meatspace: Small, frail and confined to a wheelchair due to two nonfunctional legs thanks to a traumatic childhood injury. Some visible scarring about the face, other scars and markings are covered by full-sleeved and full-legged clothing, no matter the weather. Almost always seen wearing an electrode net and AR gloves. Accompanied by a Renraku Manservant-3 wearing civilian clothing.

Matrix:
- Hi-res: A medium-height humanoid outline filled with rendering errors, impossible angles and image distortion. A circular logo depicting smiling face () wearing a baseball cap with a single star on it. Very slight simsense scent of freshly ground coffee.
- Lo-res: A circular logo depicting smiling face () wearing a baseball cap with a single star on it.

Perception (visial)
Default -1 + Intuition 5 + Vision Enhancement 3 (7) = [1 hits]
Perception (audible)
Default -1 + Intuition 5 + Audio Enhancement 3 (7) = [1 hits]

Language (Japanese)
Language 4 + Intuition 5 (9) = [2 hits]

Compile (Courier 3)
(Compiling 4 + Resonance 5 + Paragon 1 (10) = [3 hits] vs. Rating (3) = [2 hits]) = [1 net hits]
Optional CFs: Scan.
Tasks (1): Remain hidden, scan for hidden nodes and report their presence to me.

Fading (DV 4S)
Logic 5 + Resonance 5 (10) = [1 hits, glitch]
3 Stun - 1 (Trauma Damper) = 2 Stun

Stun Damage Track:
[x] [x] [ ] -1
[ ] [ ] [ ] -2
[ ] [ ] [ ] -3
[ ] [ ]

Etiquette
Etiquette 1 + Charisma 5 + Reality Impaired -1 (5) = [0 hits]

Posted a bit more.

Branmac when you get a chance feel free to post your reaction - no pressure just throwing it out then in case you missed my post about hacking the drone.