I can be a bit more specific though. When you last checked on the rover, people were starting to run to see what was going on. Some people 15 meters behind the rover have turned and one is pointing. Presumably that marks a spot with a view.

Selina Initiative 9 with 3 IPs (Turn 3)

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Thanee

For future, what bonuses did I miss? I don't like to miss things!

Bongo can get 3 successes on an auditory perception test by just buying them with 14 dice. I'll just do that.

"Bongo missed, with their bonuses, ..."

You didn't miss anything.

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Thanee

LIGHT BULB! Thanks, Thanee. Amazing what a comma can do. Honest. I have a decent command of the English language. I could have figured this out for myself, you know.

Well, Paul can only roll so high. I doubt edge would be used.

So Bongo and Willie can go, I think the only question if they hold actions or use them to run.

Selina would almost certainly go next , unless they'd like to hold and see what Lenny and Paul do/say or abeje does.

Not really sure what the situation is like.

If we are doing okay against the drones, Selina would just hold onto the invisibility spell, and keep her head down.

Otherwise, her only option really is to drop the spell and summon the biggest spirit she can, hoping for the best with the Drain.

That is more of a last resort, though. And before she would do that, Selina would give Abaje a heads-up and a moment to get into cover.

So, for now, delaying action seems to make sense.

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Thanee

If Bongo and Willie see no other hostiles at the start of the turn, then they both keep running to Monifa. Willie being first in Initiative, if he sees something hostile he will kill it. Bongo's action/decision comes after Willie's.

No target for Willie yet. As moves north he can see further into the apartment, but none of the drones in there are visible yet.

OK, they move on.

With athletic rolls or held actions?

Either way I think we're to needing Paul's initiative.

I already gave it? I think I was first to roll very bad initiative?

Ah, I thought that was for the last turn, but I'm fine rolling with it.

Is there any way a rudimentary map could be disseminated to us showing relative positions of team members and hostiles? I'm a little confused about the geography and placements.

I'll see if I can get something made. Though if it helps nobody on the team, including the Flyspy, currently has eyes on any hostiles. So if you aren't sure where they are exactly, that might just mean you understand things properly.

From the sounds Bongo and Willie know there is at least one VTOL drone outside, and crawler drones inside the apartment Paul and Lenny aren't in.

Paul could show a picture from when he scouted that room with the flyspy, but presumably they've moved since.

Or, maybe I should process the Lower initiative NPCs first since Paul went. Going into the second IP means Willie and Bongo start traveling far enough to see a target.

They could get into the room where they met Monifa in the 3rd pass. I know Bongo doesn't have that many initiative passes, but my understanding is you still break up the movement based on the number of passes anybody has.

Oh, and I won't go back on stuff. But I was under the impression taking advantage of image magnification and scopes to eliminate range modifiers required using a take aim action for that purpose.
(On that note I'd done a little ooopsie using too high a range value for the gangers the last time they want. I've corrected it in the post.)

Anyway I'm already up way too late, I gotta get to bed.

Yeah, IIRC, you always split your movement evenly among the passes that happen, regardless of your own IPs. If you have actions in a pass, you can change your mode of movement, otherwise, you keep it.

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Thanee

Oh, yeah. Thanks for the reminder and for the leeway.

I suspect a character can't run while keeping vision magnification on. Rather it is meant to work when focusing on some specific thing. So for any next actions, both will use vision mag as a Simple Action.

Thanee could also go while waiting on Willies rolls. Even though the bullets would go snapping past about ten meters in front of her, Selina wouldn't be able to see the target or the guys shooting because by that point the maintenance tower would block her view of Bongo and Willie.


Currently Selina is out on the metal promenade, behind Lisa who is behind Bello.

Some Orks from Monifa's crew are quickly approaching from behind.

To avoid confusion, everybody is clear to act. With the exception being if you're up to something particularly time critical.

Ok. So, we are out of initiative for now?

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Thanee

I guess that this is kind of time related, but the exact time would be up to Sunnyside to figure out: can Paul remotely get a drone out of the top of the Range Rover to work on getting an outside view of the action?

If there's a flying drone it could get up enough for a view. Or the van could try and shift to where people were pointing. That might be time sensitive as it sounds like the remaining Ares VTOLs are moving away, and they can do that fairly quickly.

The flyspy isn't so fast, and "sprinting" has a high chance of a glitch, but Paul can see that its got a straight shot out of the building if it went ahead due to the removal of windows and walls. .


Just to avoid confusion the drones are all unmarked in drab grey, they don't have the Ares corporate logo on them or anything.

If some of those messages sent earlier were meant to get to get to the whole team, including Angel, I could work with that. She could have just been briefly distracted. In world, all this happened in a very short time.

Yup, the fastest approach is to get the FlySpy out to see what's up. It doesn't have to keep pace with the big things, just fly a few yards before they vanish over the horizon.

I'll leave things open if you guys are doing something in response. Mostly likely I need to start hurling loads of dice for Angel and Lenny. I do appreciate some of the things SR4 did to simplify the Matrix, but a flying drone gets more complicated because it can't just reboot without crashing, and in many cases couldn't shut down all connections either.

What Selina could do is project astrally and fly after the drones, then summon a spirit of air with elemental attack (electricity) and also use a service off her bound spirit of air that has that power to materialize and attack them.

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Thanee

I've always taken it that most serious and many moderate physical wounds would eventually be lethal, it's just that when you're slicing time by seconds a wound that would give you an hour before going into shock might as well be forever for RP bookeeping purposes.

I'm also appreciating Orks just have more survivability. That bod stat they have mean even goons have a decent amount of overflow, if you track that on goons, which I do.

Hopefully welcome back! The site was down yesterday, but I'm glad to see it here now.

Looks like with some lag it triple posted for me? Is there a way to delete posts entirely?

Already taken care of.

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Thanee

Stabilisation: 6d6t5 0

Oh dear, Paul is not having a good day on stabilisation.

Esh. One more one and you'd have had a critical glitch. As it is the Ork has enough Body that they still have some blood in. Paul can try again at -2. You can just roll, or flesh a close call out for flavor and fun. Well, hoping the next roll goes a bit better.

Dumpshock back ... for now. The Dawn of the Artifacts group I play in abandoned Dumpshock and moved to Myth Weavers because of the interruptions to service.

Yeah, it is getting quite disruptive with how often this happens, unfortunately.

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Thanee

Is it a matter of money? Upgrading tech or memory? Security software?

Hey. We're back.

It is rough for something like this particular point where you're trying to solve something versus just going through the steps. You had been doing very well at picking up on things and forming ideas.

Would you appreciate a recap?

I could also advance time some, maybe just buying some hits for medtech work, give Selina and rundown on the area around the drone etc.

That sounds good to me.

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Thanee

I don't know the specifics.

I assume, that the website is kept running, but not really devloped or updated.

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Thanee

Recap : Yes, please.
Advance : Sure, though Bongo is proud of his combat with a drone.

Quick! Post something before DS goes down again!

That's the spirit!

Well... right now it is quite fast, actually. Hopefully it will stay that way for a while.

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Thanee

Interestingly, It took me a long time to log in, but s I moved round the site, the switches to the next page got faster. I logged out and back in, and the log in was much faster the second time.

Almost as if activity bumped me up in some queue.

Well, out and back again. What should we do?

Good question!

Getting to the other floors to look around for that flower-spirit seems like a good idea.

Also, not sure what to do with the drone now. Should I just destroy it (well, have a spirit destroy it, more like)?

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Thanee

Would there be any use in bringing the drone back for study?

Asking IC might give something for Kokepan to reply to. I can see him lurking a bit, so we actually might have the forum back and the crew. I'm a bit surprised but maybe we could go again?

Also while I'm historically worried about GMPCs, I'm appreciating their ability to bring up factoids IC.

A bit tricky while in astral projection.

This should work, though.

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Thanee

How large of a drone are we talking there, anyways?

Maybe carrying it (through the city) isn't all that feasible...

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Thanee

Good point. And carried by a spirit, no less. That won't attract attention, will it?