Still here. Will try to post some flavor about electronics stuff and setting up the tacnet.

Still here, things just a little busy. I'll be posting soon.

Likewise, and if we can have the characters meet up a few hours before the run (and after sunset), I still need some help summoning the Force 7 fire spirit. Hopefully, it will even out the dearth of magic ability there.

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a another great holiday weekend and is enjoying the day off today. As usual add the 1 point of weekly karma to your sheet.

I threw up a post in response to UmaroVI (thanks for posting) and I will be looking to bump you all to a few hours before the meet once we wrap up this RPing bit.

Sorry for the delay. I am still here.

Perception 5d6: 1 hit to examine the new nurse.

Etiquette 4d6: 3 hits to get him to like Emilio.

OK going to bump to just a few hours from the run to clinic tomorrow. Thanks all for posting and getting us back in motion.

No problem, sorry about the delays.

No apology required.

Post up so feel free to run your plans out for the actual run and make ;art minute rolls for spells, summoning, etc. I would like to start the actual run on Tuesday next week.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Fat Man is going to be casting Increase Charisma on Zerone for summoning fun times. Casting at force 7, 15d6, 7 hits (I think Zerone is capped at Charisma 12 though). 11d6 drain soak, 3 hits, so he's fine (only 1 drain for that). Fat Man will sustain it long enough for Zerone to summon a spirit, and then drop it.

Summoning a Force 5 guardian spirit with the optional power Concealment. It rolls 5d6=2 hits to resist, Fat Man rolls 14d6=4 hits to summon, 11d6=6 hits to soak drain, so he's fine.

Thanks Umaro, I'm capped at 12 so that's perfect.

Here goes something (hopefully):

Summoning Force 7 Fire Spirit:
Magic(7) + Conjuring(3) + Mentor Spirit(2) + Power Focus(3) = 15d6 for 4 hits. Edge rerolling misses for 4 more hits. 8 hits total
Spirit's opposed roll: 7d6 for 2 hits. Phew. 6 total services
Resisting Drain: 2x(2) = 4S
Willpower(4) + Charisma(12) + Centering(1) = 17d6 for 8 hits.

Stats for Isabela:


I'll throw up an IC post tomorrow (it's almost 3AM here and I should have been asleep 3 hours ago... x_x)

Buddha--To confirm for the Doctor, will a video recording of her death be sufficient for the bounty, or do we need something physical (ear/head/tongue etc)?

Team--Let's layout the goals for this assignment:
Primary:
Save Emilio
Kill all the staff
Don't Damage the facility
Take the Right Hand of each person (is this a requirement--looks like it was for the dock job)

Secondary:
Collect data from the computer about final disposition of certain patients
Kill the evil Doctor and provide proof of demise

Are there other goals, side projects, computer data needed? Saying it now will help me plan out what Cypher needs to get done inside the computer.

Looks about right to me. Zerone is going to try and save/spare any of the victims trapped in the facility, and I'll make sure he mentions that before the run.

The right hand was only a requirement for the dock job. As to the good doctor you will need to provide a body to collect the bounty or video and a part she would find it hard to live without such as her head, heart or brain as an example.

The reason I want to send the Guardian spirit with the backdoor team is that it has Magical Guard. We'll have both mages on the frontal assault, so this way we have Counterspelling on both teams just in case.

That's a good idea. [Edit---Oops, was thinking about binding. Only one spirit from me ]

Front door team--which of you doesn't have Gremlins? Buddha allowed me to be able to tell, since I was futzing with your commlinks etc to setup the tacnet. I'll post IC but basically I want one of you to slap the tacnet on Emilio since I'll be doing electronic stuff.

Zerone doesn't have gremlins. I don't really have any tech skills, though, so he might not be a good choice if he has to make a roll.

Fat Man does have Gremlins. Cypher can probably tell that Fat Man treats his commlink like a magic box, with mixed results.

Buddha, I can't remember if you ever answered Umaro's question on the magnitude of the mana background count. I looked for an answer in the OOC thread, but couldn't find it. I had my guidance spirit make an assensing roll of the area and got 7 hits in this post. Did we get any info on how big of a hit we're taking to our magic or are we casting blind?

I think it was rating 1.

Okay, rolling some spells before we start.

Casting Increase Charisma at Force 7:
Magic(7) + Sorcery(3) + Focus(3) = 13d6 for 6 hits. I'll take it (though I'll probably rue the choice not to try and max it out).
Resist Drain: (7/3)-2 = 1P
Willpower(4) + Charisma(11) + Centering(1) = 16d6 for 6 hits.

Casting Increase Reflexes at Force 3:
Magic(7) + Sorcery(3) + Focus(3) - Sustain(2) = 11d6 for 6 hits. I'm sensing a trend...
Resist Drain: (3/2) + 2 = 3S
Willpower(4) + Charisma(11) + Centering(1) = 16d6 for 6 hits. ...uncanny... That's five in a row off of Invisible Castle according to the urls (I accidentally rolled 13d6 for my resist drain roll and ended up with another 6 hits). Dropping it into my sustaining focus.

I'm ready to rock and roll in the front (if by front, you mean peeking out from behind a corner and furtively tossing stunballs/manaballs... )

Awesome, thanks.

Happy Tuesday all! Add your weekly drip of karma as always. I have thrown up the IC post moving you to just outside the clinic and ready to hit the place - hopefully successfully.

Correct on the background count being 1 inside the clinic.

Crap, sunset??? I thought we were hitting the place after the sun went down so that our spirits don't go "pop"... x_x

JxJxA--The patches for Emilio are RFID tags with small sensors in them. Peel and stick to make it easy.

No problem was the flavor text I put in - wasn't trying to pop spirits.

Perception Test (Visual) 11d6.hits(5)=1 Wow...that sucked.

@ Bishop: Cool, will remember that when we find him.

@ Buddha: I'll try my hand at a perception test. If it looks dire, I can have Isabela take a look (though I'd like to save her services for dispensing divine punishment upon the wicked).

Perception(Visual):
Intuition(3) + Perception(2) + Vis Enh(3) + Tacnet(2) - Sustain(2) = 6d6 for 1 hit and 2d6 for 1 more hit from the Tacnet dice. So I see just a few more grease spots than Cypher does...

Perception Roll (basic):
Perception(3) + Intuition(3) (6d6.hits(5)=0)

+ Image Enhancement
Image Enhancement(3) (3d6.hits(5)=1)

+Olfactory Booster
Olfactory Booster(3) (3d6.hits(5)=0)

I also have Broad Auditory Spectrum(High Frequency), so might be able to pick up sounds that are otherwise out of normal hearing range.

And to differentiate from the flavor text, turning on the ruthenium, going stealthy, and I am actually going to be holding my breath unless otherwise noted Let me know when you need a stealth roll.

@ Bishop: I should have asked this before rolling, but is the Tacnet up? If so, I've got another pair of dice to roll...

Phew! Okay. Otherwise, I (and likely Fat Man as well) would have been a sad panda.

Yes, TacNet is operational, and causing my AIPS to act up.

At the moment everyone is getting a +2 dice bonus and tactical information about the other team members. The tests that the bonus can apply to are covered on UW, p. 126

Okay, cool. Edited my visual perception test to include the extra dice and got one more hit. I'm attributing his success partly to his overwhelming feeling of being slightly out of place in this group, and partly to his desire not to flub this run up.

Fat Man's visual perception roll is 11d6=4 hits (with TacNet included).

Fat Man is wearing his full armor and shield.

Also, the BGC will knock Fat Man's shen to force 4, so it can only Concealment four of us. Fat Man, Zerone, and Cypher are definitely getting covered. I think the fourth should be Eklipse, since I think Ayo has a huge Infiltration check already, but I can switch that if I mis-remembered.

OK just need a Perception Test from Eklipse if nothing by tomorrow morning then going to bump the thread forward.

Cool, sounds good. Umaro's post made me realize that I hadn't given Isabela any commands. So now she knows to attack and has an astral impression of Emilio from our prior scouting.

Throwing up my IC post now - sorry we ended up hosting a last minute birthday party for my sister-in-law so was out shopping today and cleaning the house.

Right, tossing in the bonus Perception dice:

Bonus TACNET dice (2d6.hits(5)=2)

Two more than I had last time. Thanks Bishop!

Let's see if we can find signals, or if they are hardwired...

Detect Signals:
14d6.hits(5)=4
13d6.hits(5)=4 - 8
12d6.hits(5)=2 - 10
11d6.hits(5)=4 - 14
10d6.hits(5)=2 - 16

In case I find them:

Exploit 1 (Stealth 6)
14d6.hits(5)=2
13d6.hits(5)=3 -- Not expecting a DR higher than 5, let me know if I should roll again.
Edit 1
14d6.hits(5)=5

Exploit 2
14d6.hits(5)=5
Edit 2
14d6.hits(5)=5

Exploit 3
14d6.hits(5)=3
13d6.hits(5)=2
Edit 3
14d6.hits(5)=4

Strength(3) + Athletics(2) = 5d6 for 3 hits

Buddha--From what I can tell with the cameras, are they watching both doors or focused on the front? Any blind spots that we could climb up/levitate without being on camera?

BishopMcQ - the angle leads you to believe they cover each door and the area around it to see people as they approach the door. Going up and over is an option.

I'm presuming that Zerone will use a service to have his spirit put me on the roof, along an angle not visible by the cameras. Once that happens, I'll plug in and do the edits as before. (Copying and pasting the earlier rolls)

Exploit 1 (Stealth 6)
14d6.hits(5)=2
13d6.hits(5)=3 -- Not expecting a DR higher than 5, let me know if I should roll again.
Edit 1
14d6.hits(5)=5

Exploit 2
14d6.hits(5)=5
Edit 2
14d6.hits(5)=5

Exploit 3
14d6.hits(5)=3
13d6.hits(5)=2
Edit 3
14d6.hits(5)=4

Happy Tuesday All!

As usual add 1 point of karma to your sheet. I will be throwing up an IC post with the results of the rolls.

Follow-up extended strength test:

Strength + Athletics:

5d6: 2 successes
4d6: 2 successes

I'll stop there as I hate doing extended tests with less than 4 dice.

Quick Analyze test to see if I can access the computer through the camera, or if I need to go through the office.

15d6.hits(5)=4 looking for connections to other devices, alert status

Alrighty, so here we go. I'm not sure how soon people are going to kick down doors, blow stuff up, or roll initiative, so I'm tossing out all of my die rolls here.

Stealth test (to stay quiet)
7d6.hits(5)=2

Perception (listening at the door)
9d6.hits(5)=4

Hardware -- cracking the case (Lock Ratingx2, 1 Combat Turn)
11d6.hits(5)=5 (Rating 2)
10d6.hits(5)=4 (Rating 4)
9d6.hits(5)=3 (Rating 6)

Anti-Tamper System if present
11d6.hits(5)=3

Rewiring the Circuit (Lock Ratingx2, 1 Combat Turn)
11d6.hits(5)=2 (Rating 1)
10d6.hits(5)=1
9d6.hits(5)=3 (Rating 3)
8d6.hits(5)=4 (Rating 5)
7d6.hits(5)=0 (damn that was close...)
6d6.hits(5)=3 (Rating 6)

Initiative (In Case)
7d6.hits(5)=2
9, 1 IP

Can I get Stealth rolls from people and let me know which door you are heading for. Also how are the other doors being opened at this point?