the meet was at 6 (i thought i had corrected that in the post somewhere?) so i would say at this point it's too late to get inside, through normal means.

For the matrix search, if you can get onto their host, I'd like to know if there are any deliveries scheduled, or if they use a certain courier service, etc...

ok, so everyone is staking out tonight?

Mason is tagging along with Wormwood.

When we're done with our field trip, I'll probably head to a site where I can start the Matrix searches, the info about our Johnson first, then proceed onto information about our target (including their host, if that's accessible).

Thumbs up/down on the miniblimp surveillance? Do we have a rigger who would like to take over that job?

by upper floors, i ment those occupied by the hunt's facility, remember, there are other things on the lower levels, total buidling has 24 floors.

I also made mention of it being a conclomerate, with them sharing the building with other companies..

er, i guess i assumed that everyone understood that hunts was using the top floors of a larger building

No problem. So is the rest of the building accessible to the general public? Most conglomerate buildings that I know of in RL let people come and go, and if a company is renting space they provide their own security at the entrance to their part of the building.

yes, you can get in the front door without serious problems, unless you look like you're bringing serious problems with you.

Is there anyway to differentiate the people leaving the building (i.e. tell what company they work for) or are they all just wearing suits pretty much?

they're not WAGEslaves for nothing, i'd be amazed if half of them KNEW which corp they worked for heh

Ok, Mason is going to astrally project and go in and try to scope out the floors used by this Hunts lab.

Perception Test (if needed)

So is there much drone traffic in the area? It would be good if we can leave the blimp surveillance drone here to watch the building, but if not we can at least use the cover of night to try and take a look inside those upper floor windows with it.

So, while we are waiting for Mason to do his thing, do we see any new security guards coming in or any cleaning crews?

Once Mason is through astrally projecting to scope out the floors of the Hunts lab, I guess we will be splitting up to do our own info gathering. Is that correct guys?

We should have tailed the johnson too, just for SnG.

I have no etiquette, so I can stay here with someone, while the others do legwork. Dont want to be asking around the corp types, too late at night though.

no, there isnt much drone traffic around that you can in the air ways., depending on how big this mini blimp is though, it might be possible.

Mason is going to go through the front door and try to scope out a likely path to the labs. Once he finds his way to the labs, he is going to try and go in.

Perception (just in case)

Well, Mason is gonna take a look around and if he doesn't see anything is gonna head up the elevator shaft (also making note of any stairs) to the floors that the lab is supposed to be on.

Perception

i guess i didnt make it clear enough that the stated emotions are comeing from the sign, since you can't actually red in astral space...

Ok, well I'm heading up to the lab floors now...

does this blimp have some sort of light on it that can be pointed into the windows? is this the point of this part of the recon for you boo?

I'm actually running the blimp in Captain's Chair (non-simsense) mode, using it as more of a mounted camera that I can move around. It doesn't have a flashlight, but it has the standard suite of vehicular sensors (Rating 1), which includes the following: Rangefinders, ultrasound, laser proximity detectors, video cameras, basic radar, signature recognition software, lowlight and telescopic magnification (but no thermo).

I'll be using it for mostly aerial recon and have it loiter around, giving some continuous surveillance while we drive off and do other things.

Since the lights are on in the floors with the lab it really wouldn't need a light anyway.

Plus they wont be able to see out as well. Does the blimp have a minigun or nukes mounted to it? That would make our entrance sweet.

anything else you're going to check out boo?

Let's check out the roof.

Wormwood is trying to spot any cameras or other security measures on the roof. Probably going to be too difficult for him unless they are fairly obvious.

Perception Test

That sounds like a fun idea. Rigger drop us onto the roof!

It's legwork time! Boo is going to ask his Corporate Broker contact via secure e-mail to see if he knows anything about our Johnson or our target.

He will also do the following Matrix Searches, in a serial order:
Simple General Search on our Johnson, restricting the search to things pertaining to ketchup companies and using what we know about the Johnson so far as parameters. This is a low profile search.
Base Time: 1d6 Hours
TN: Base of 4, +2 for maintaining a low profile, -1 for Etiquette: Matrix, -2 for having the Local Shadowland Node as a contact, -3 for using an Agent, -1 for loading a Rating 6 Browse on the Frame, -1 for having a rating 6 Frame, + whatever modifiers are necessary.

Simple General Search on our target, the Ketchup Company. This is a low profile search.
Base Time: 1d6 Hours
TN: Base of 4, +2 for maintaining a low profile, -1 for Etiquette: Matrix, -2 for having the Local Shadowland Node as a contact, -3 for using an Agent, -1 for loading a Rating 6 Browse on the Frame, -1 for having a rating 6 Frame, + whatever modifiers are necessary.

Standard Specific Search on any courier or delivery companies scheduled to deliver any items to our target within the next couple of weeks (using the shipment databases of various public and private courier/delivery companies). Again, this search will be low profile. I don't think Shadowland would have this information, and I might have to dig deeper to get it.
Base Time: 2d6 Hours
TN: Base of 5, +2 for keeping a low profile, -1 for using a Browse 6, -3 for using an Agent, -1 for loading a Rating 6 Browse on the Frame, -1 for having a rating 6 Frame, + whatever modifiers are necessary.

I'll do deeper searches on other targets as I get tidbits of information based on the above searches. The above searches should take no longer than 24 hours and should be even less than that.

The next day I will be contacting a few people for the legwork.

First, I will contact Karl Fraytag (corporate contact) to ask about both company's.

Ettiquette tests(seperate test for each subject):



Second, I will contact Miles Mellough (Lone Star contact0 to ask about the security company.

Ettiquette test:


Lastly, I will contact Candice Rialson (reporter contact) to see if either company and/or the research building has been in the news lately.

Ettiquette test: (seperate test for each company and the building)

ok guys, i hate to do this, but i'm personally not finding the site working for gaming the way i was hoping, so i'd like to bring up playing it on RPOL.net atleast to a vote. so if everyone could atleast try to create an account there, and see if things atleast work for you, i'd appreciate it. If, for some reason you think it's incrediabbly vital to stay here, i'll hear them out, but i'd REALLY like to move the game.

I will have to see if I can access that site from work (my main reason for being here on DS). However, I won't be back at work for another week and a half.

That is my problem too, I am not sure if I can get through to RPOL.net when I am at work, which is when I normally have the time to post. I will be able to check it tomorrow though.

if it's an issue of slowing the game down some to a post every couple of days while you're at home, i'd be willing to make that sacriface, i like the site that much heh. If it's an issue that you CAN'T post at home, well, thats obviously another story.

I would like to stay at Dumpshock. The whole appeal of doing this is the fact that I can log into Dumpshock for my one-stop online gaming needs. If I was completely starved for Shadowrunning, I might feel differently, but I already have 2 IRL games each week.

So far I'm enjoying the slow pace of the game, and I think it's going well. What would you like to do that isn't serviced well by the forums here?

well, or one is some sort of decent notepadding issue, two is the fact that i need to have two seperate tabs (three if i'm browing regular dumpshock), three i need to keep track of files on my comp for CS's, and four is on rpol.net, they have a shadowrun roller, so you can plop in the TN for things if you know it, and generate the number of successes for me

how does rpol.net work differently?

Ok, my office does block RPOL.net, so at best I would be posting from home every 2-3 days. At worst, it could be as little as 1/week. I am going to night classes and have other things going on that take up most of my free time. Work is really the only time I ever have to think about gaming. So I would prefer sticking to Dumpshock.

If you want me to tell you the number of successes that's fine. I have been using the diceroller that is part of nsrcg which has the same ability to specify the TN and count successes. I just am used to the GM setting the TN in secret so I haven't been doing that. Also, most of the rolls, if not all, so far, have been things that I wouldn't know the TN for. Perception tests are versus a TN based on the conceal of what you are looking at. Ettiquette tests for legwork are versus a TN based on the chance a type of contact will have any info. Etc.

rpol has a note bad device built in for each game, a charactersheet spot and within a game, the ability to have multiple threads... then again, what i can do is just set up the game for my own use i suppose... but since the majority seems to be for sticking here, that's what i'll do. Whats the point of being a GM ig ya got no players?

oh, and with Rpol, we can set it up so everyone has different character names instead of your DS handle, so i can stop being confused heh

I try to use my character's streetname that you first called him by in every post. Though that probably doesn't help all that much since I gave him several streetnames, a real name, and an alias.

If it makes it easier I can just start calling him Slacker. The names are just there for flavor and background.

Hahnsoo, i'm looking at your mods, and if i'm counting right, if i want to get you above a TN of 2, i'd have to come up with mods equal to +7, correct? wow... lol

Sorry i haven't had anything IC lately guys, it seems like i'm worse of an SR gm than i thought heh, not quite sure how i'm going to dole out the information. But i'm going to get a few things posted here soon.

and as an aside, I'm looking at the prospective of actually getting a job starting next week, so i MAY end up canning this, as i feel i'm doing alot better with a dnd game i'm doing than i am here.

I've found that gm'ing a Shadowrun game is much more difficult than a DnD game, but I also think it's worth the effort.

So far I think you're doing a good job at this and I would hate to see it end. But sometimes life does interfere, and that is understandable.

You shouldn't feel like rushed to post anything. Forum games are always slow going and people understand that. So take your time in posting.

I think you're doing a good job Aku, echo I wouldn't want to see it end. Sorry I havn't been posting alot. As soon as I get back to work I will pick up to my normal pace again.

Wormwood will share what info he got with the rest of the group. Hopefully they can use it in their legwork.

Boo, i'm doing your data searches now, once i'm done, let me know if you think i should've given more based on the tn's etc...ofcourse, my dice could just be mean, but i'm trying to give what i think needs to be known...

<pats himself on the back for doing his first matrix searches> YAY!

Hooter, did you have a list of people you were contacting?