I am incredibly non-stealthy (like in the category of "HEY GUYS, I ROLLED A FOUR!!!"), so I want to ask if Fat Man's spirit is using concealment on us before rolling...

From his post above, it was Fat Man, Zerone, and Cypher, and either Eklipse or Ayo.

If the cameras are doing their job, no one inside should see you. Because they stuck with a wired approach, it's unlikely there are cameras in other buildings. (It'd require digging lines under the sidewalk which gets noticed...) We're worried about someone hearing you through the walls, seeing you during their smoke break, or peeking through a crack on the boarded up windows.

You can toss some Edge to help out or worst case, they open the door and start shooting--if that happens we go loud early, but you don't have to worry about opening the door.

That's right, I forgot about Umaro's post. Thanks to defaulting on stealth and sustaining my charisma spell, I'm rocking a 1d6 pool for stealth. That's why any extra dice from the spirit would really be helpful.

The spirit actually drops dice off people trying to notice you, rather than adding to your own check.

Oh, yeah, that's right. x_x So...here goes nothing.

Stealth Roll: Spending a point of Edge to add to the dice pool
Agi(3) - Default(1) - Sustain(2) + Edge(3) = 4d6 for 1 hit. I forget if penalties can reduce the Edge pool as well, but you can knock off the last die and it's still one hit.

Hey guys and gals,

Apologies for being offline for a while. Think I was a little burnt out after xmas and new year. I would love to jump back in if that's still possible. I am trying to get up to speed with the IC track and could get up a post sneaking up to the facility pretty quick. Just let me know which team I am on.

Welcome back! I think we all figured you were still with the group. It's up to you if you want to be part of the Cloak and Dagger team (which is Ayo, Fat Man's shen and Cypher?), or the BFG-Toting team (which is Mages R Us, Inc and Zerone's ravmalakh).

Eklipse is pretty stealthy and fights with either a suppressed SMG, a katana or his bare hands so is probably better suited to the stealth team.

If penalties would drop you below 0, and you spend Edge, your roll just Edge, if that's what you're asking. Like if you would normally have 2d6, and you would take -8, you have 0d6 (not -6d6) and can spend Edge to roll Edged6 instead.

Fat Man has 1 Agility + 2 Infiltration + 2 Specialization - 1 carrying a Shield = 4d6, also 1 hit.

I see I'm with the sneaky team!

Agi 5 + Stealth 3 = 8d6.hits(5)=2 - only 2 but Traceless walk give opponents a -4 dice mod to hear him and Cloak gives a -1 dice mod to detection spells to detect him.

Ah, ok. Thanks! I've only played Shadowrun via play by post, so I end up learning rules and then forgetting them between missions. x_x

Stealth(2) + Agility(7) + mods(2) (11d6.hits(5)=2)

As we can see, the Shadowrun Gods have continued to frown on me

So, just the two hits, but anyone rolling visual perception has a -4 dice pool penalty to see me.

Extended strength test:

Strength + Athletics:

5d6: 2 successes
4d6: 1 successes

Happy Monday all!

As usual add 1 point of karma to your sheet. I hope you all had a great weekend. My posting will be sporadic and possibly light this week since my husband is traveling all week but I have a sitter a few times this week so I should be able to post something.

Any questions? Feel free to ask away.

Not sure if you all missed my question from earlier but how is the front door team actually opening the door?

RAWR! Thog SMASH!!??

Fenris--I'm counting on you shooting the nice lady (read: psychopathic doctor) when I open the door.

I see a few options:

1. Cypher technomances it. Not sure if he can but this would be my preferred option as it's quiet!
2. One of the spirits kicks it in.
3. One of the mages ram spells it.
4 Shaped charge that we remembered to bring - anyone got demolitions?

I think Cypher is with the back door team. I think when it's go time (meaning when we are at the door and the back door team is ready to actually take advantage of the distraction), we're just going to have to have the fire spirit melt the door - neither of us have Hardware.

Sounds about right. I don't have shatter/power spells x_x

Perhaps not as sneaky as I would have liked but a fire elemental melting your front door should at least keep attention away from the other team.

For the record, Cypher is a hacker not a TM. Sadly, all of the devices seem very limited about what they talk to. Hopefully I will be able to gain more control of the system once I'm inside.

I second the Burnination plan, it makes you guys a really REALLY big distraction. (Though do remember, minimal property damage. If a spirit could materialize on the other side and open the door, that'd probably be easier. Do mages remember pushbars or complex locks?)

Getting my storylines mixed up!

No worries, Widget was a TM so it carried to reason that the new computer type would be too.

Oh yeah, waiting and ready ;D

Buddha--So when it's initiative time, I'm going to spend a point of Edge for an extra IP. This first round while I'm playing at meat speeds, I'll need some extra oomph.

I can send Isabela through the door and tell her to open it. If it opens to a room filled with soldiers, then a fireworks display might make for a better entry...

In theory nobody is alert yet; that sounds like a good plan.

Cool, so how many services would it take to have the spirit go in, materialize and open the door if safe/blast it open if it's not?

That's kind of vague and up to Buddha, but generally stuff like "assist us in breaking into here and beating everyone up" is one service.

Hey all - sorry again for the lack of posting this week.

JxJxA/UmaroVI - I agree that it could be one service. Just run it by me in OOC and we'll muddle it out. I want to avoid commands like "Go in and open the door then conceal me then take out the guards then...." and have that be one service.

BishopMcQ - noted on the the expenditure of Edge.

All - Please make a Reaction + Intuition + 3 Test (surprise test) and we'll start the break in on Monday possibly Sunday if I can make some time.

Thanks again for the patience when real life pops up,

Surprise Test (Cypher)
10d6.hits(5)=2

@ Buddha: Cool. The command is basically go in and open the door. If the room is empty, then just materialize and unlock it. However, if the room is full of bad guys, materialize and burn out the lock. I'll tell her to go about killing the bad guys, but that would definitely be a second service. How does that look?

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3347417/ Fat Man got 5 hits.

Here are my rolls for Zerone and Isabela:

Zerone:
React(3) + Int(3) + Incr Ref(2) + Surprise(3) = 11d6 for 5 hits. Init 16/IP 3

Isabela: Force 7 reduced to Force 6 due to background count
Forcex2+3(15) + Surprise(3) = 18d6 for 4 hits. Init 22/IP 2 (once materialized)

Happy Monday all and add your weekly drip of 1 karma to your sheet.

I will get Fenris to post his surprise test today or I will roll it for him and start the clinic insertion tonight or tomorrow morning.

JxJxA the order looks fine to me so we'll go with that.

Okay, cool. So I gave Isabela two orders. One for the door and the second one to attack our enemies.

Reaction(5) + Intuition (3) + mods(2) + Surprise dice (3) (13d6.hits(5)=5)

I will not jinx myself by saying anything like 'maybe my lucks improving' or 'maybe SR doesn't hate me as much anymore'

Sorry all will be posting the results and the opening scene tomorrow morning - little kid throwing up and bloody nose so my night got derailed here big time but I have asked the husband for the day off free from children.

Ok I am a dunce and forgot to ask you all to roll initiative please (thanks JxJxA for having yours) - during the first pass of combat you are only able to affect or react to combants who scored fewer hits than you as noted below:

Surprise Order
Ayo 5
Zerone 5
Fat Man 5
Security 1 5
Isabela 4
Security 2 4
Security 3 4
Tech 4
Nurse 1 4
Cypher 2
Security 4 2
Doctor 2
Nurse 2 1

Eklipse ?

Initiative Order
Isabela 22/2 IP
Zerone 16/3 IP
Security 4 13/2 IP
Security 3 12/2 IP
Doctor 12/2 IP
Security 1 11/2 IP
Security 2 10/2 IP
Tech 10/1 IP
Nurse 1 9/1 IP
Nurse 2 8/1 IP

Ayo ?
Cypher ?
Eklipse ?
Fat Man ?

Going to send a PM to Notsoevildm and see if he's still with us.

Weird, I was sure I posted surprise round roll. Just to really mess me up my IC account is borked so cant find the roll back

Surprise roll: Int 4 + Rea 5 + combat sense 1 + 3 mod = 13d6.hits(5)=4 - bah, only 4 this time! Think first roll was 6!

Initiative: 9+ 9d6.hits(5)=4 = 13/2 passes

Surprise Order
Ayo 5
Zerone 5
Fat Man 5
Security 1 5
Eklipse 4
Isabela 4
Security 2 4
Security 3 4
Tech 4
Nurse 1 4
Cypher 2
Security 4 2
Doctor 2
Nurse 2 1

Emilio ?

Initiative Order
Isabela 22/2 IP
Zerone 16/3 IP
Eklipse 13/2 IP
Security 4 13/2 IP
Security 3 12/2 IP
Doctor 12/2 IP
Security 1 11/2 IP
Security 2 10/2 IP
Tech 10/1 IP
Nurse 1 9/1 IP
Nurse 2 8/1 IP

Ayo ?
Cypher ?
Emilio ?
Fat Man ?

Surprise test: 8d6 gave me one hit.

Initiative: 10 + 4 hits = 14 / three passes

Re-posting the previous extended strength test:

Strength + Athletics:

5d6: 2 successes
4d6: 1 successes

Whoops, I realized I forgot to roll for Fat Man's spirit, which is with the back door team. It is f5, reduced to f4 in the BGC.

JxJxA: I think you might have forgotten to account for all foci losing 1 force in the BGC (ie, your f3 sustaining focus drops to f2, and thus only holds a f2 increase reflexes).

Fat Man's initiative is 12/2 IP: http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3354432/
Shen's surprise is 7 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3354434/, initiative is 14 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3354435/

I had rolled way up by the camera hack. Here it is with the +3 modifier.
10d6.hits(5)=2 initiative 12, 2 IPs

Surprise Order
Shen 7
Ayo 5
Zerone 5
Fat Man 5
Security 1 5
Eklipse 4
Isabela 4
Security 2 4
Security 3 4
Tech 4
Nurse 1 4
Cypher 2
Security 4 2
Doctor 2
Emilio 1
Nurse 2 1

Initiative Order
Isabela 22/2 IP
Zerone 16/3 IP
Emilio 14/3 IP
Shen 14/2 IP
Eklipse 13/2 IP
Security 4 13/2 IP
Cypher 12/2 IP
Fat Man 12/2 IP
Security 3 12/2 IP
Doctor 12/2 IP
Security 1 11/2 IP
Security 2 10/2 IP
Tech 10/1 IP
Nurse 1 9/1 IP
Nurse 2 8/1 IP

Ayo ?

That's correct and I forgot that as well so let me know what your refigured initiative is JxJxA.

That I did, thanks for reminding me. Sorry about that, Buddha. I'm at 10 dice and 2 IP because of the background count, and you can knock off a hit. I'll be at surprise 4 and initiative 14/2.

Initiative (11) (11d6.hits(5)=3) for a total of 14

Surprise Order
Shen 7
Ayo 5
Fat Man 5
Security 1 5
Zerone 4
Eklipse 4
Isabela 4
Security 2 4
Security 3 4
Tech 4
Nurse 1 4
Cypher 2
Security 4 2
Doctor 2
Emilio 1
Nurse 2 1

Initiative Order
Isabela 22/2 IP
Ayo 14/3 IP
Zerone 14/2 IP
Emilio 14/3 IP
Shen 14/2 IP
Eklipse 13/2 IP
Security 4 13/2 IP
Cypher 12/2 IP
Fat Man 12/2 IP
Security 3 12/2 IP
Doctor 12/2 IP
Security 1 11/2 IP
Security 2 10/2 IP
Tech 10/1 IP
Nurse 1 9/1 IP
Nurse 2 8/1 IP

OK all set up and the first one up is Isabela!

So her first action is to float on inside and open the door one way or another. Do you want me to write an IC post or should I have her make a perception roll?

For the spirit to materialize would be a complex action - an IC post would be great since I always feel hesitant to describe personal things like magic themes and spirit for players. It's a place for their characters to shine and distinguish themselves from other Awakened folk.