No problem - post your rolls please.

Sounds good.

Servan: Assensing subject in A4
Int(5) + Assensing(5) = 10d6 for 6 hits. I like this particular spirit... I should summon his dice rolling skills again.

Did you want to make the divining roll in secret to keep us from metagaming the result?
Magic(5) + Intuition(5) = 10d6 dice pool

The divining question is: When will the subject in A4 be harmed again, either by unwanted surgery or an attempt to end his life?

Also, is it possible to have the spirit use an edge reroll on the divining dice?

Looking at the neighborhood, are there any Matrix cafes, coffee shops, etc nearby? I am looking for somewhere to hangout for 30-60 minutes where I wouldn't draw attention playing in AR.

Data Search - 13d6.hits(5)=4 If needed, I can roll more.

Emilio's perceptions (7d6):

0 hits, 1 hit, 2 hits.

I rolled three times, for after each surgery.

I guess I'll make the divining roll. Re-posting the assensing roll from before:

Servan: Assensing subject in A4
Int(5) + Assensing(5) = 10d6 for 6 hits.

Divining Question: When will the subject in A4 be harmed again, either by unwanted surgery or an attempt to end his life?
Magic(5) + Intuition(5) = 10d6 dice pool for 3 hits. Edge reroll of missed hits: 7d6 for 2 more hits. Hopefully, that gives us something useful.

Happy Monday all!

To clarify I will almost never post on the weekends so be patient. I would prefer to roll the divining to limit metagaming as well. The spirit can use Edge on the roll just let me know if you want it to. Also do you want the Edge spent with the roll to add dice and make 6s explode or after to reroll dice that weren't hits?

I have the kids at home this week so I will be posting later in the day with no posting happening on Thanksgiving. I will be posting tonight after I get another dad home since I have some extra kids here (5 more plus my 2).

Actually Emilio will edge the first roll. 7d6 again gives:

5 hits! Wow!

No worries, here's the info:

Divining Question: When will the subject in A4 be harmed again, either by unwanted surgery or an attempt to end his life?
Dice pool: Magic(5) + Intuition(5) = 10d6
Edge: Use to reroll misses

Sorry, wrong thread

I will be posting early tomorrow morning around 7:45ish.

Morning is a goner so I won't be posting to the late afternoon or early evening - sorry all. It seems I was the only parent who prepared for children being off this week and I am watching more kids so other adults can go to work etc.

Posts up - sorry all for the delay.

No worries, nice touches on them

First aid roll on Zerone: Log 3 + First aid 2 + medkit 3 = 8d6.hits(5)=3

Coming up with a plan: Log 3 + Security procedures 4 = 7d6.hits(5)=3

Brief IC post is up. Will get the longer Hacking/Sniffing part up later today.

Buddha--I'm presuming we are still on the night of the meet, right? If time slipped to sunrise, I'll need to send a message to Aideen, sleep, then go to the diner.

Matrix Security Procedures -- Knowing what I do about their setup, some possible configurations for the security network. 8d6.hits(5)=0 Apparently there's not enough information to build a picture...maybe we'll try again when I have more than "the building is over there, people are inside with headwear."

Detect Hidden Nodes -- Tracking down the guard's links and the actual node if one is there. Also if Emilio or the docs have links, maybe they'll show up.
13d6.hits(5)=6
12d6.hits(5)=5
11d6.hits(5)=3
10d6.hits(5)=2 -- 16 hits
9d6.hits(5)=5 -- 21 hits (in case of a higher threshold to find the links)
8d6.hits(5)=4 -- 25 hits and that's as far as I'll press my luck.


Data Analysis -- Not sure how many nodes I will find here, so I'm going to throw out a bunch of tests. Taking the Analyze Node action to get an Access ID, Firewall Rating, System Rating, Response Rating, Hidden Connections, and Alert Status
14d6.hits(5)=6, 14d6.hits(5)=6, 14d6.hits(5)=2, 14d6.hits(5)=6, 14d6.hits(5)=7, 14d6.hits(5)=5, 14d6.hits(5)=3, 14d6.hits(5)=5, 14d6.hits(5)=6, 14d6.hits(5)=5
Node 1 -- All
Node 2 -- All
Node 3 -- Access ID, Firewall
Node 4 -- All
Node 5 -- All
Node 6 -- All but Alert Status
Node 7 -- ID, Firewall, System
Node 8 -- All but Alert Status
Node 9 -- All
Node 10 -- All but Alert Status

Avoiding Intercepting signals and Hacking on the Fly until we are closer in or I can make sure that no one is watching their networks.

Happy Monday All!

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and add one point of karma to your sheets. I will be posting tonight after the kids are down. Half days all week for parent-teacher conferences so my free time in the afternoons is gone this week.

PS Ok 11 pm here and I have to get up at 5 am tomorrow so I will be posting in the morning tomorrow - sorry all.

PPS OK 11 pm again and still getting up at 5 am - will try to post Wednesday.

@ Notsoevildm: Zerone will forward Joseph Goodman's contact info to you. That's the fixer that his talismonger put him in touch with. He was an L1/C3 contact, so he probably has the stuff you're looking for.

@ All: If anyone else has a better contact, feel free to forward it to Eklipse (and me )

I was going to try Aideen for the electronics and can include gun orders in that. I don't know her connection rating, but her people have lots of bigs guns on the security brigade. Something tells me that if it falls off a truck in Seattle, Aideen can find it for us.

Sounds like a better shot from a game perspective. From an RP perspective, Zerone will always do whatever he can to help out, no matter how meager it is.

Yep, and I'm not there while this conversation is happening.

Ok post is up - feel free to write yourself back into the scene since the search at the cafe wasn't nearly as long and ardous as it could have been.

BishopMcQ I am happy to say I have left you with the correct impression of Aideen.

You can all reach out to who you wish - just post a list of what you're asking for along with availability and the rating of your contact. If you're having the contact roll I will take it from there but if you're actually trying to round up the gear then post your Negotiation rolls for me.

As a side note - this time of the year (Christmas, New Years, etc) tends to be an excessively busy time for me and mine. Those of you in the know we host 5 parties for family and friends this time of year which range from 12 to 25 people each so I am going to do my best to post but it's going to get a little spotty so I apologize in advance.

Happy Monday all!

1 more point of karma for your characters and let me know if you need anything from me. I think at this point I am looking for lists with availability as well for gear requests from contacts?

I will be out of town starting this afternoon till late Wednesday night but I will have my laptop and internet access so I will try to pop in and make sure to keep things moving along.

Alrighty, so Fat Man, Zerone, and Cypher are all good to go for TacNet. Ayo needs a simrig, and Eklipse is an enigma.

NotSoEvilDM-- Can you swing 4 sensors, or do I need to order supplies?

Also, is KatDoktor still among us? I saw Twist drop, but couldn't find a note for Kat.

Simrig -- Avail 12, 1,000 (No legality code means no permit. YAY!!!)

Also GM question--according to the tacnet rules, each member needs to provide 4 sensors and ostensibly be able to see the AR feed. Would you allow Glasses with an Image Link, and 4 RFID tags with sensors to contribute? My intent is to have a fast way of getting Emilio into the TacNet, and slapping patches on his chest and giving him a pair of glasses is the fastest I can come up with.

If allowed, I'm also ordering:
Glasses with Image Link --, 50
RFID tag with Microphone 4, 50
RFID tag with Camera --, 100
RFID tag with Motion Sensor 4, 50
RFID tag with Geiger Counter 4, 50

KatDoktor is out.

I would say the TacNet for Emilio would last one scene and dies, a jury rigged solution. It will be more fragile than the usual TacNet (sensitive to electrical damage, tag erasers, etc). I like the thinking outside of the box so I'd let it work with those limitations in play.

Was anyone else trying to pick up gear before the run?

I'm not picking up anything, though I might think about asking my talismonger to track down a Force 5 sustaining focus for when I finally have the cash. Don't know how long it might take to get it.

Fat Man is going to meet with the Hengeyokai before the run if possible.

Strength(3) + Athletics(2) = 5d6 for 1 hit

JxJxA A Rating 5 Sustaining Focus costs 50,000 and has an availability of 20 (SR main book pg 348) so it would take a Negotiation + Charisma Extended Test (20) with an interval of 1 week to find (SR main book pg 312).

You are welcome to have a talismonger start looking but with gear like that most contacts require half up front to start the search since its no small task to find one.

UmaroVI I will get a post up for the meet and get that started - thanks for the reminder. After the meet with Fat Man I was going to bump the thread to the actual run.

Yeah, it's worth it to start. My talismonger, Rev. Hannibal, is a connection 6/loyalty 5 contact. Maybe it's possible for him to take 10k instead? That I have, and after the run I should have the rest for the downpayment.

Actually, I just read the swag rules. I don't think I'll have the 65,000 for the gear plus the finder's fee in the immediate future. Would it be okay to pay my contact his finder's fee and set the wheels in motion? Also, I think I'll be looking for a rating 4 focus. I forgot that my Willpower is 4, not 5 (was thinking of my charisma). It'd be easier to swing the 52k.

Okay, good grief, I realized I was reading the wrong stuff now. From now on, I think I'm just going to ask what I need to do in order to get my gear. x_x

BTW, is it okay if I summon the spirit with a one (or more) of the team's medics present and an hour or two before the mission? I'm going to try and even some of the anti-magic odds with a Force 7 fire spirit.

I just want to make sure I get a chance to roll the dice before the time jump.

Apologies for being AFK for a bit. Real life and all that goes with it.

Eklipse is looking for the following from one of the group's fixers:

3 clips gel rds for HK227 ~300 yen
3 flashpaks 600 yen
5 neurostun grenades ~400 yen, will settle for tear gas/nausea gas grenades if neurostun not available at short notice.

About 1300 total not including any markups. Will get up a post later today.

JxJxA: Fat Man can help with part of that. First, he can Increase Charisma Zerone while summoning (rather than Zerone having to sustain it himself), second, he can Increase Logic whoever is doing the First Aid.

Buddha: what does she look like on the Astral? Is she dual-natured too?

@ Umaro: Awesome, I totally forgot about that. It's much nicer to have 15 dice to throw at a Force 7 fire spirit than 13

NotSoEvilDM-- Can you swing 4 sensors, or do I need to order supplies? (Not sure if you saw this question mixed into everything above.)

@Cypher (BishopMcQ): I believe I can cover it with thermo, vision and audio enhancements from helmet, smartlink from contacts, plus Eklipse's own low-light vision and magically enhanced hearing (perception) via simlink - that's gives you anywhere between 5 and 7 depending on how you count them.

If Buddha rules otherwise, more than happy for you to strap on a few extra sensors to reach the minimum!

As a head's up, I'm traveling for the next week. I expect to be able to keep up with posting without a problem. (Yay WiFi!) If technology fails me, I will pass the word along.

Notsoevildm those senses should work no problem.

UmaroVI Perception please and if you are going to assense her then Assensing roll too.

Perception 10d6 for Visual/Hearing, 7d6 for any other sense, 3 or 2 hits.
Assensing (Aura Reading) 12d6, 4 hits.

I am totally having the contact look into it, because I have basically negative social skills.

I'll forward the details of the firearms in a separate email, since I don't have it on this computer.

Made the contact roll and got a 5 on the die where I needed a 6. Since it's probably going to be a few weeks until he tracks it down (and a bit of time in-game gathering the full amount of nuyen), it's not a big deal if I get in touch with him right away.

Happy Monday all! Record another 1 point of karma to your character sheet. I should be able to post tomorrow since I should be kidless most of the day - I'll be minding a family friend's costume shop for the day.

So the rain down here has knocked out the Internet at work so I won't be posting on my iPhone so tomorrow it will be - sorry all.

UmaroVI Her essence is 6 and her Magic is 10, she has no implants and is Awakened. Her current emotional state is concerned/alert and she has no diseases or toxins/poisons in her system.

Happy Tuesday all!

Add 1 point of karma to your character. I will try to post sometime this week - I have all the kids home for the next couple of weeks on Christmas break.

Wish me luck!

So a friend of mine has a thread that needs more players here on Dumpshock. Check it out:

IC: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...2269&st=400
OOC: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...1593&st=675

If you're interested PM BishopMcQ your character ideas and/or submissions.

Happy Tuesday all!! Hope everyone had a great Christmas or holiday weekend. Add the usual drip of 1 karma to your sheet and a bonus of 5 from Santa.

I have one more big hosting event this coming weekend with New Year's Eve then my life should settle down a little bit. Please try to post in this thread to let me know you're still out there and I will keep an eye out for any IC movement.

At this point I want to wrap up Fat Man's meeting then I was going to fast time to the start of the extraction run. Let me know if I have forgotten anything that needs to be wrapped up before that.

Thanks all!

I'm here!