Yeah, I'm not trying to persuade you to fight it out, just making sure you're aware of that. Leaving is certainly the safer option .

ack, I somehow missed this post :/ been waiting to hear back from you.. sigh

Alright, going to post all IC

Increase reflexes spell (Force 3) for if the fit hits the shan:
Magic (6) + Sorc group (4) = 10 dice = 3 hits

+2 initiative, +2 initiative passes
tie that into my health focus.

drain (4):
Willpower (5) + Logic (5) = 10 dice = 1 hit

Ouch. 3 stun.

Con to make it look effortless:
Charisma (4) + Con (2) + mentor bonus (2) = 8 dice = 3 hit

Anything worth doing is worth making look good!

I'll do a post about 6:30 in the morning...still here just sleeping

Two PM, Thanee?! Ting-Ting is some kinda sadist, I think

That's about 12h ... should be enough to get sober and get some sleep, or not?

Bye
Thanee

What's this? A mysterious double post!

No corp security is going to trace and drop people on you in under 10 minutes unless you're going places that are really important . I'm advancing the time a bit, and you guys can feel free to do whatever until ~7:30 AM, when I'll take care of Seth's visitor. Hopefully I'll have time to get that post done tomorrow evening.

Seth: Feel free to advance to 6:30, or whenever you'd like to get up.

By the way, it looks like we forgot to change the date when we moved past midnight on the timestamps. Also, a couple are marked PM instead of AM. I've fixed my posts, if you guys could do the same when you get a chance, that would be great. This is the first place it should be changed.

Thanks

Edana:
In the morning, Fractal will take out the CommID chip on his commlink and modify it so it has a new commID. Additionally, once it's back together, he will use the software to spoof a yet different commID.

He will then register this new CommID with a new black MSP, and do some rerouting of his commcodes.

sabs: Assuming you have the electronics tools, that's a fairly trivial task for you, so that's fine, would probably take you a grand total of 30 minutes or so altogether.

Thank you Edana! What a pleasant first appointment. I'll reply tonight

gonna be out of town until next wednesday, fyi.

OK folks do we have any questions about the gardener?

I have to admit that I am reassured about his combat prowess, and his connections.


I'll be contacting you all on the commlink in my next post, so while I'll be asking a few questions around getting him out of the way, you might want to ask some questions as well. I'll wait till tomorrow to post to let the rest of you think of some questions.

Intuition + Disguise + Facial Sculpt 3 hits

Bye
Thanee

It sounds as though actually getting to the gardener would be the hard part - once that's done, actually taking him out wouldn't be as difficult...

But we've decided to try to sidestep this issue, right?

Yes we want to sidestep it, but the best laid plans of mice and men...

I'll ask about what will happen if we foil his plans.

That's cool - I wasn't trying to imply that we shouldn't talk about it, just re-confirming our plans

I'm personally curious to mess with this guy, now. It seems like it could lead all kinds of interesting places. After our primary run, of course.

Nanopaste disguise:
computer(4)+edit(6)+ci(1)+pushed(1)+encephalon(1)=13d6: 2 1 4 6 4 3 4 5 3 5 4 1 4 (3) hits

Intuition(3)+disguise(5)+Nanopaste(3)=11d6: 6 6 6 4 1 3 4 5 4 2 6 (5) hits

When Fractal shows up at the Monkey Shrine, he'll look like an old chinese man, using a cane to walk.

Let's see, whether Ting-Ting notices that something's odd about that old man...

Intuition + Perception 9 hits

Yeah, I guess so...

Bye
Thanee

Bitch
Ruining my fun.
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Sorry!

But Ting-Ting did play along (at least somewhat... she probably wouldn't have answered much differently, if there was no sign of a jest).

Bye
Thanee

Rereading those nifty Enhanced Pheromone Receptors, Ting-Ting might actually be able to discern the smell of Fractal.

Intuition + Perception (Scent) 4 hits

Bye
Thanee

Especially cause Fractal has Tailored Pheromones

Yep, those work extra well against her.

Bye
Thanee

Perception test on Fractal's disguise: 5 hits

*edit* dang, tied - guess it goes to the defender...is that me defending against your disguise, or you defending against my perception?

Speaking of Hope... anyone seen Kim around? Has been pretty silent lately... Hmm... "Last Seen: 4th May 2011 - 06:24 PM"

Bye
Thanee

Yeah, hasn't posted in this thread since Apr 17 2011, 05:43 PM

Disguise sets the threshold, so tying the number of successes is all that's needed.

I believe Seth and family are currently traveling, so he may not have the opportunity to post until Monday. Feel free to assume Dr. Yang shows up on time for your new meeting. I'll work out the rest of the conversation with his contact through PM so as not to severely impact timelines.

Unless I hear something from Kim in the next couple days, you can assume Hope just never shows back up and can't be contacted. Feel free to let the paranoia run wild .

sabs: Let me know when and how you want to check your accounts. I will tell you now that the account you originally hacked on the first node is gone (ie. the one from the initial probing).

everyone: I'm going to want visual perception checks from everyone.

Don't want to check yet. Probably let it sit a day or so.

as for perception checks: 12d6 6 4 6 6 5 4 3 4 5 3 4 6 (6) hits

Intuition + Perception (Visual) 7 hits

Bye
Thanee

Sorry I got out of sync with the posts: Its been a tough week (I had to sack everyone at work including me) and I haven't been giving dumpshock much attention for about a week. The chaos at work is mostly over, although I am travelling a lot until Monday, so I should be back to normal soon.

So to get back in sync I'll close down the conversation with Dao, and meet up in the park.

Sorry to hear that, Seth. Hopefully things will run smooth for you again soon.


Is Dr Yang's meeting on the evening of the current day already? Then he might not come to the monkey shrine (maybe sending an excuse?), or would he have been there?

Bye
Thanee

Meeting was AM. I am heading to the monkey shrine.

Visual Perception: Intuition (3) + Perception (2) +vision enhancement (3) = 8 dice = 2 hits

Seth: Several of your posts are marked PM instead of AM, might be the cause of confusion for the meeting time.

everyone: There is a steady flow of people in the shrine area, but it's not packed, so picking out individuals isn't too difficult. A fight would have dozens of witnesses though, just in case you're wondering about that sort of thing .

data search+browse=12d6 12d6.hits(5)=5

ew(4)+scan(6)+PuSheD(1)+encephalon(2)+ci(1)=14d6 14d6.hits(5)=6

Yeah, kinda. But no biggie. Got it now.



I really come to think this might not be the best place to discuss upcoming criminal activities.

I actually didn't think there was anyone in there at all, besides us.

Bye
Thanee

How embarrassing. I have edited them

Well, I'm assuming that you're meeting up just outside the shrine, and planning on finding a private meditation area or the like to actually talk in. Standing out in front of a shrine is probably a bad place to hold an actual discussion .

sorry for being absent, I forgot to mention I would be gone the past 3 days...

as far as the shrine crowdedness, in my limited experience in China, since it's a holiday, there are going to be tons of people out and about, so at "public" places like this Monkey Shrine, finding a private meeting place might be difficult.

Attribute Boost (Agility) 1 hit
Intuition + Shadowing 3 hits

Bye
Thanee

EW+Encrypt+ci=11d6.hits(5)=4

That's for encrypting the communications.

Shadowing(2)+Intuition(3)=5d6: 6 5 2 5 1 (3) hits for shadowing the shadower. Not sure if being disguised as an old man makes a difference.

How come everyone can see through my disguise :/

It's quite good!

Perception is too easy (and Ting-Ting is crazy good at perception)... though it should be fairly easy for everyone present in the shrine and on the team channel to deduce it by now.

I kinda have the same problem with Disguise... you only get to roll like half the dice than someone with Perception will have, assuming both are good at it.

Bye
Thanee

It also helps that they've met you and might have an actual reason to make that check . Your average person or even guard isn't going to take a second glance unless you're doing something to draw scrutiny. Disguise can be kind of situational that way.

sabs: Your scan turns up 2 nodes on the guy, one operating in hidden mode, and one in passive (responding as: Joseph Stein, with an EVO SIN to queries). You'll need to roll shadowing+intuition to follow the guy.

He did.



Me too.



Bye
Thanee

Ah, I missed that, since he had one roll linked in that post, but not the other. I did see yours though .

AR hacking on the fly of the hidden node.

first:
computer(4)+analyze(6)+ci(1)+encephalon(2)+pushed(1)=14d63 5 4 3 5 2 4 3 3 3 6 2 1 5 (4) hits
Hacking on the fly: going for a user account.

hacking(4)+exploit(6)+ci(1)+encephalon(2)+pushed(1)+optimized(1)=15d6:
1) 6 2 6 5 6 2 2 3 2 4 6 6 2 1 4 (6) hits
2) 6 5 1 3 6 5 2 3 5 5 6 2 5 1 2 (8) hits

That should be more than enough, and still only get him 2 scans against my 6 stealth.
Hacking+stealth: 14d6 2 3 3 3 3 5 5 2 2 6 3 1 6 4 (4) hits.
for logging into the system
computer+analyze: 14d6 4 4 4 1 1 3 4 2 6 6 3 5 6 (4) hits

I can link from home, from work, invisible castle is blocked.

That post has both, because I did one from home, then drove into work, did an edit, and added the other roll.

@Edana
I'd quite like to shapeshift into a dog and follow this guy. I don't know how that would work, so I thought I would ask in the current low stress environment.

• Am I correct that in a place that this it is usually easy to break eye contact with people (the toilets are always an option)? Then I can cast shapeshift and follow.
• I don't know how the clothes work: is it like a shifters/drakes powers in which they merge with the character in some way, or are they left behind?
• Are dogs are quite common in the park/city? If not are their foxes / other urban creatures?