Somewhat delicately, I imagine. I'll probably be doing teamwork testing on any etiquette tests. For the most part, we'd want you along to see where any mojo is, as well as having counterspell dice. Maybe cast a discrete spell or some such.

Don't forget that people can spot you casting, though. So I wouldn't cast anything higher than maybe force 1 or 2.

You know with 3 dice it might be best if you didn'thelp.

You've got a significant chance of glitching with only 3 dice.

Ghost would be more help, except for where she doesn't speak Dakota.

3 dice for what pool?

Glitching isn't that bad. Critical glitches? Yeah, those are bad.
I might add that I, against intuition, actually have a lower chance of getting a critical glitch than Von (assuming he has 4 Dice). I guess he could just buy a hit though.

@Von: Etiquette

Yeah, it's one of those weird things..

But honestly, a Catholic Priest would not be my first choice as helping with the etiquette/con angles when dealing with super tight, Dakota female runners.

Agreed! I'll be outside for magical support. Comm me and I'll be in like flint.

Well, really, neither of us would be there to win your social rolls for you. We'd be there to act as backup, and show our hand that we're a team.

Granted, ghost would make a better talker (y'know, discounting the lack of dakota/whatever). Pedro can still do stuff at distance and/or in the car, so I'm cool with either approach.

Ok, so it sounds like it's Warden and ghost backing up Lyle. I'd say Cruiser could go instead of myself since we're both Sammies except that I know Dakota, which could be important.

Go for it! I'll be in the car for backup.

Dunno, I would expect them to be able to speak english.

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Thanee

Okay, somebody give me a "we ordered pizza, told each other our life stories, and then piled back onto our vehicles and headed for the meet" post?

Or you can tell each other your life stories. It's the first time you've had downtime together...

I bet they speak english just fine

I just also bet they don't care to if they can avoid it.

JP
I never got a forum message back from Hammer jack or anything?
We never heard back from Hazif about Mr Falcone and Hammerjack?

Well, I could also use LinguaSoft, but it's a tad expensive.

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Thanee

Not at the current time stamp. You may hear something before you leave, however.

I don't have the software skill yet to do the copyright cracking

Okay folks, give me dispositions. Where will you be in relation to the picnic benches. And if you're going to be in hiding Cruiser, give me an Infiltration roll.

Going straight and openly towards them, I guess.

I also made another Disguise roll, to renew Ghost's Disguise (it only stays for a few hours) - 2 hits (Glitch)

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Thanee

Leaving Jessie with Pedro in the car. Loaded with SNS rounds. Otherwise I'm just walking along with ghost and rick.

Rick will be with Ghost nd Warden, going straight in.

Pedro in the car.

and putting up a brief IC post

Intermittent Internet access today due to inclement weather. Will likely not be posting much until it clears up.

Von, do you want to scout the area out either by way of astral projection or a spirit? I'll wait to post more to see what you say here.

What's the best way to go about this? Is a watcher spirit harder to detect because of it's low force?

I'm away from my books, so I can't say. Group consensus?

Watcher spirits are a dime a dozen
Although officially watcher spirits only get 2 dice for perception tests, making them worthless as actual watcher spirits

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. You're better off whistling up a real spirit at Force 3 and getting them a decent optional power - I don't recall the name, though.

Unless you want to be a pal, and give Watcher Spirits a special "Watcher" ability that makes them actually able to do the job people use them for

By divine fiat, I believe I shall. I believe that they will add the caster's Magic attribute to any perception test. Let's run with that for now, and I'll fine tune later if need be.

They do not even need to roll to see astrally active auras. Those are quite obvious. They only can't assense them very well.

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Thanee

Yeah, the bonus is to their perception+int tests to help them be able to find someone who isn't in line of sight.

Earth Spirit summoning attempt
Summoning Roll: 2 hits -> http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2865214/
vs. Force 3 Earth Spirit http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2865215 = 1 net hit.

Drain = 2 x 2 hits = 4 DV ->
Resist: 4 hits = http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2865218/
= 0 drain

Optional Power: Earth Engulf

Looks good for one service. I'll let you tell him in the IC thread what you want him to do, and then I'll run with the rest of it after that.

You have read the news about the Intel chipset, I suppose?

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Thanee

Do you think it's worth using the spirit to Search for Belenkiy now? I doubt he's with them at the moment. Very much anticipating what happens next!

Yeah, I'm sad because I'd like to have more than 4 non-dying sata ports when I bought a board with EIGHT. I also want to not have to re-seat my CPU and crap, but I think I will be taking a replacement board.

I'd hold on to it for now.

That won't really work, anyways, since you do not know Belenkiy's aura. He could only really search for someone fitting the description.

But considering the spirits accompanying her, it is very likely, that there is a mage where Belenkiy is, and it would probably tick them off, if a spirit came looking to wherever they are.

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Thanee

Well but he could look at the aura of the spirits watching over the girl.

If their aura does not match HER aura, then someone else summoned them. He could then use THAT aura, to track the Shaman/Magician who summoned them, and in turn find her.. who is almost certainly WITH Mr B at this very moment.

Yep, that's kinda annoying for sure. (I'm glad I havn't bought one yet, so I can just wait until this mess is over in April or so.)

Though I'm not really sure what you would use more than 4 SATA ports for.

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Thanee

2 ports for my mirrored OS 1Terabyte drives.
6 ports for my Raid 5 10 Terabyte data folder holding all my pron/games/movies/songs/shows/etc

Rick speaks Cantonese?

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Thanee

Rick, I do not have analyze truth. Also, they are not in my line of sight. I can have the spirit guide me to where you guys are, or hide from a distance and, if they refuse to say anything more, cast mind probe at the face of the group when I can see them (but hopefully not so they can see me)

OOps, I thought he did but that's japanese.
I'll edit

Mind Probe is Range: Touch.

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Thanee

Heh. He's smart enough to figure out what Ghost meant without understanding her words, though.

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Thanee

You actually DO have LoS. We're standing in LoS of the car.
You don't need analyze truth, assensing can help you determine if someone is lying.

Ah thanks. So I could go invisible and then touch one of them...not sure they would like that too much, they don't seem like the touchy-feely type.

Rick would be upset if you did that
You could go Astral.. come up, assense her aura, and the aura of the spirits protecting her.. (nicely) without making them nervous. Determine her level of truthiness, get the aura of the spirits.. and go from there.

I'm looking at the assensing table, (SR4A, p. 191), and it doesn't say anything about truth/lies, but I'll go for it:

Assensing + Intuition = 5 dice (eek)

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2870017/

1 hit, very close to glitching

I really should have taken the hermetic mage build with intuition as the drain attrib.

Doesn't hermetic mages have Logic as Drain Attribute? Druids and Witches (and probably some others) have Intuition.

You can specialize Assensing in Aura Reading, which will help a bit.

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Thanee

You can sense her emotions, which would, with enough successed show you wether she's being honest, or deceitful.. etc.

assensing is an awesome ability spend karma on it.. pretty please.

yep thats what i was going to try to do. bump assensing up from 3 to 4