Yup - from the SR4A section on ammo

Ridiculous example, but there you are.

I'm okay with saying you destroyed the Ares Centaur. I mean, I'm crying.. but I'm okay with it.

That's what the rules say... apparently I'm a gifted sharpshooter.

When my light machine gun rotodrone finds you! you won't be quite so gifted.

Ice perception check: Hearing check: 11d6.hits(5) → [4,2,2,1,2,3,6,4,2,6,6] = (3)
If it's visual, I lose three dice, and would only have 1 hit, so unlikely to spot much...

Jamming is this game sucks. it's stupidly badly done.

That being said

Armadillo has area jammer rating 4, Directional Jammer rating 3, anything inside those areas needs a signal rating+eccm software total to be higher than those ratings. (Which is almost anything)

Additionally, I'm jamming the Sultan, with jamming on the fly, the only signals I'm going to allow is a specific backup setting I have setup with Kit. So my Commlink can still communicate. (I switched the Armadillo to that setting, and I'll have to reestablish communications with my other drones.

Jamming on the fly is:
EW Skill + signal vs THEIR EW skill + signal + eccm complex form .. sigh

EW 4 + Signal 5 + Edge 4= 13, I'm spending fucking edge.

Wow nice roll: I used Random.org/dice it's the only thing I have access to at work.
2 1 2 6 5 2 1 6 5 6 5 3 1 = initial hits: 6
Edge Reroll of 6's = 6 4 6 = 2 more hits
Edge Reroll of those 6's = 4 6 = 1 more hit
Edge reroll of final 6 = 2

Total hits: 9

Btw, a Technomancer's signal is resonance rating /2 round up.


Eat Dumpshock you techomancer bitch
*cough* sorry

I'm not sure the technomancers needed a bad ass longarmsman that Technobitch is going to wipe us out before we get a shot.

Yeah, I just realized how awesome drone technos are. Not good at the hacking side of things if you spec for rigging.

and she's got 2 nimrods :/ inbound.

Heck, I just feel bad for popping that Centaur before she could override it.

I'm pretty sure the DW kit included microwave transceivers so you can always use them if normal wireless is compromised...?!? And Klink, Armored can't see anyone else and no drones but you suspect there is a camera at least on the entrance...

...and the technobitch is designed to make your lives more difficult, not wipe you out without a chance Despite appearances it isn't me against you

well, I don't have cybercombat skill so.. I'm pretty much meat if she goes after me in VR.

And if she spanked the Captain, I'm not really all that powerful.

Nope, I'm pretty sure it's me against them.

Good job you're jamming her signal then isn't it? Of course, as you kindly brought her some Nimrods to play with (a drone army against a Technomancer camp?!?) then she has plenty of other ways to spank you!

I can jam the nimrods too hopefully.

A drone army makes sense. And as for technomancers, frankly he didn't believe in them until now

Can Ice see any of the things that the others are doing at this point, from his current vantage?

You can see a load of smoke around the LAV and apart from that not a lot else...might be time to take the hunt inside?!? Will try and PM you soon!

BTW
The Cocoons on the Sultan are Advanced cocoons, they have Valkyrie modules.

I...have no idea what that means.

LOL. Advanced cocoons, a rigger can basically live in. The Valk module automatically stablizes them.

A valkyrie module counts as a r6 medkit, and allows for basic remote surgery

...don't forget to give Outlaw some sort of orders or they'll bugger off and try to reestablish comms with HQ...your choice!

The rotadrones have caught up with the LAV now, the Tower is floating out there somewhere with all of Dahlia's extra gear in it and those Nimrods are inbound

Oh, and the helicopter has nearly landed at the tower, will get there more or less as you reach the school...

wait, I thought we'd lost contact with the Outlaw again

No, I just haven't written any more from them contacting you...they are just plain confused! They are in range of your retrans drone for a little bit longer...

One more thing...now your cover is blown I'd guess you can behave less like sneaky buggers and more like Mercs (been reading the alt.War thread and the Dangerous Game stuff by Rastus...)

...so feel free to start acting like brazen bad asses!!!

@Aria - I want to make a negotiations check on the boy. I have Charisma 2 and Negoitations 1. Add any situational modifiers you want and roll for me. Just post the outcome.

I suspect he'll drop the gun like a hot potatoe...despite your crappy charisma (or perhaps because of it)

Maybe because I'm essense like .2 and I'm nearly a robot?

Okay

For shooting the Grenades from the Drone:

Command: 5 + Gunnery 4 + TacNet (2-3-4?) + Optimization 1+ customized interface 1+vr 2+pushed 1
3 4 3 3 5 6 6 6 3 2 6 5 5 5 + 3 5 5 1 = 8 hits + 2 hits = 10 hits.

Not sure how big the TacNet bonus is, so I rolled it seperately, feel free to shave dice.

I also don't know what the neg modifiers would be. Again, just shave dice from the end.
It skips the first two grenades and fires a HE grenade.

High Explosive 10P –2 –2/m

The grenade is exploded about 1 M off the ground, to make sure there's no scatter, and to maximize chunkysalsa

Alright. Dahlia's going to open up the medkit and start stabilizing the mage that has been shot.

Logic (7) + First Aid (3) + Medkit (6)
16d6.hits(5)=12

She has stabilized the hell out of him.

You pwn'ed that stablize roll!

With that roll you might even have been able to stabilise the people who just got hit by Sab's grenade!

Stabilized? She went so far as to clone him just in case she needed any organs!

Yesssss! Spare mages for everyone!

You going to do a surgery roll to take those bullets out and stuff?

Indeed. It just slipped my mind. Surgery Roll:
16d6.hits(5)=5

Well he'll live...no problems

J. I really don't think your rifle is capable of firing at those drones (unless you can convince me otherwise)...I know you are highly skilled but it needs a bipod to balance it (too heavy to fire from the shoulder) and the magnification won't work because the drones are moving too erratically (unless Sabs wants to move them in nice straight lines for you?)

Of course the same could be said for the Optic-Xs but I imagine them to be flying a surveillance sweep rather than jinking around in combat flight...?!?

Anyone disagrees with this assessment then I'm happy to mod my IC post...

Well, I feel like the drone should get a response+pilot roll or something.

The optic-X's have a military spy pilot rating 4 on them. They're not exactly stupid.

They are probably flying a defensive pattern that's optimized for surveillance.

I'm not saying he can't hit them. But they should be a tough shot, and they're moving way too fast for zooming in to be super efficient.

They're moving at 90kmph/56mph, about 1200 Meters up in the air.

Ok, it's still dead, will leave you to work out how that's possible They are certainly out of range of most rifles for a considerable amount of time...

Now that you are about to get to the tower I thought I'd give you the following level info (appologies if it doesn't tie in with whatever I told you before but the OoC thread is now a bit long to check )

Stillwater Tower – Pre 2070 Info

Lvl -5 Geothermal plant
Lvl -4 Recycling plant
Lvl -3 Recycling plant (Lake bed)
Lvl -2 Leisure facilities, airlock to fish farm, plant
Lvl -1 Underwater restaurant, services, plant
Lvl 0 Bridge link, reception, lounges, restaurant
Lvl 1 Auditorium / conference facilities
Lvl 2 Suites
Lvl 3 Suites
Lvl 4 Suites
Lvl 5 Suites
Lvl 6 Skypark & wind generators
Lvl 7 Skypark
Lvl 8 Penthouse suites

Just so I'm not being completely arbitrary - the drone is dead because your spell defense is in a coma in the LAV! Don't worry, if he targets the non 'freebie' drones I'll let you rol

You did keep in mind that drones have an ORC of 5/6 depending on the book.
So, you need 6 or 7 hits just to get an effective 1 net hit?
And they stil get to resist spells with body+armor?

Ah buggerit! Maybe I'll rethink the whole thing That's what comes of playing new editions! I rolled as against body+armour and forgot object resistance sheesh!

As an aside, once you get in touch with HQ I'll asign you some more magical overwatch - although a better solution would be if one of you wanted to take on a second character as a mage?!?

well, if you used an indirect spell (like say Lightning Bolt, or FireBall) then it would be body+armor.
But then, we would have noticed where that came from

I don't really like playing Mages, and remembering all the tricks for Stick is hard enough as it is

It was actually a home brewed variant of telekenisis that I was using powerbolt as a game mechanic...all that aside we'll scrap that plan, I've changed the post a tad so please roll a defence roll for the drone (conventional shot of sorts...)

Resist Indirect Spell Dicepool for the Optic X is 8 Dice.

Roll 8d6: 6 5 3 3 5 4 4 6: 4 hits.

Ok, then the drone is very much alive...he'll just have to keep plugging away Take 6 boxes of damage (Fc 5 + 1 net hit) and my apologies for making you edit your IC post

@Klink: I'm assuming your squad's commlinks are set so to hidden mode so that they don't receive any AR footage from the area around them...let me know if that's wrong?!?

@Everyone: A quick reminder about the tower, this is the link to the building I'm basing it on. To avoid any confusion I'll try and use American level conventions in IC (which I believe is different from the list I gave you a couple of posts ago?) so Level 3 where the LAV is landing is the first level of suites. Each alternate level is about half the one below it (see pg 2 on the link above as an example) and this is a full level, the suites above you being a half level with views down to this one...

Hopefully that's clear

Hi all. In the thread description it says "recruitment always open". Is there any space for another, and if so what would be most helpful?

A mage! zomg a mage

Correct.