Man Konsaki is on a ROLL today. He's serious about hitting that Monday June 11 deadline it seems, so I recommend you all pay attention and help him out with getting your characters approved.

@Trojan

Modified the effects of your Moderate Claustraphobia. Please review it and decide if you want to keep it or not.

As you are also a Drug Tech, like Doc, I have skiped over your gear until I finish the drug rules.

Ah, well I'll keep in mind your periodic absences then, and adjust accordingly. Hopefully you won't be affected by this to the point where you're forced to drop out. I definitely don't want that scenario. Thanks for letting me know.

Don't worry about details on the other gang's HQs. It's probably best you only give general descriptions and thoughts anyway, since Bockscar shouldn't know TOO much about them.

Contact upgraded to 2/2. Pilot Groundcraft upgraded to 2.

The wiki is acting up right now so I sorta have my hands tied until it clears up.

it's up again

Legion is approved for gameplay. Congrats. May you go down in a blaze of glory.

Konsaki -

If we decided to make additional tweaks to gear how do you want us to get "re-approval" and make it easiest for you... do like we've done in the past and say "I got rid of this and in it's place I took x, y, and z for the same costs"?

I'm already considering some tweaks to Nevada's gear before final game start.

The wiki has a version history, so it's pretty easy to track changes.

Yes, but make it as easy as possible for Konsaki, since he's one guy doing all the reviews.

@Legion

Sorry, but another question popped into my head: What is the talisman that you have on your second Geas?
Also, you need to choose which powers, tallying 1 full point, go unusable when you are in a lit area (inside lighting, daylight, spotlights, etc)

The versioning history is actually quite good. You can comment the one that is approved, then just before the game starts, or any time you need to, you can compare the current version versus the "approved" version and get all the difference, and who made them.

Konsaki - How are you interpreting darkness, btw? Does it have to be pitch black for Legion to use his powers or what?

Grendel - Did you intend on doing darkness as a condition geas (per my question to Konsaki above), or time geas (i.e. nighttime)? We discussed this on the phone but I think it's relevant now.

It's nighttime that his magic is available. Sunset to sunrise. The physical act of the sun dipping below the horizon and not some arbitrary time. So during the summer his magic is available for a lesser time than during the winter. Talisman geas is covered under mechanics, it's a knife he made himself from something his father owned.

Sounds good, you just need to choose the order that the powers drop off, in a way that they drop in 1 point incraments.

Combat sense and critical strike are tied to the talisman, improved ability only works at night, and kinesics and mystic armor to gesture.

@Lindt: No offense, but is Mouse male or female. Cause Konsaki seems to think male. But I thought female, which is it?

Ohhhh *Bonk* *bonk* *bonk*

I mean, yah sure I knew that.

Winter If you don't mind I'd like to add the Delgados to the NPC page. How do I represent Theo's single international contact? (Cousin Fernando) C: 4?

@Konsaki: The bits I had for claustrophobia was most just trying to detail what sets off a panic attack. The mechanics you added just talk about the mechanical effect that the stimuli has. I just realized that as a dwarf some rooms probably appear larger to him than others so ceiling height shouldn't be a claustrophobic issue.

I guess the question is what sets it off at moderate. That is what would really determine if I want to keep it. Would working in a small room with a door and a window open trigger it? How about riding in a car with the windows up? How about in a small bar with no large windows? A large bar or club?

Would going to the window and sticking his head out count as escaping it? Perhaps stepping outside on a regular basis. What is the threshold for "ignoring" the claustrophobia?

Too many people bunched up around you, like in the middle of a dance club dancefloor or a mob of people rushing to a wrecked food delivery truck
A room of around 5m square with the door and window closed. The window and/or door open will surfice to wave the composure check, but you still get the negative dicepool and feel nervous.
A car with the window rolled down is good, but if you are stuffed in the back with two other people in a sadan, you would have to roll a composure check.
These are just a few of the examples, too many to write out.

To 'Deal' with the fear, you have to only get 1 hit on a composure check. If something happens in your life that makes your fear get worse and jump to Servere; like getting tied up, thrown into a box and having people bang on the outside of the box for an extended period of time, your TN would get higher along with the situations being more extreem, like just being inside a bathroom stall with the stall door closed or something else.

@All
I'm just letting you know all know right now that negative qualities are going to hurt. You got the BP for them and come gametime, they are going to bite you in the ass eventually.

Ok, that'll do. I'll go ahead and keep it.

@ Konsaki

Updated CS/Gear

Hmmmm. . . .re-thinking Toxic Spirit Bane.

No no Cedric. Keep it. Really, I insist.

Jeeze at this rate we're gonna have a pack full of gangers who will piss of any and EVERY kind of spirit at some point or another

Let me say for the record that I have absolutely no problems with that.

WR, you're missing your little devilish GM smiley at the end of that one. It would be most appropriate.

I was completely serious. I have zero problems with you guys setting yourselves up to be royally screwed in as many different ways as possible. It makes our job so much easier.

@Winter: Gee thanks Have you given Theo's connection rating any thought?

Meriss - Where is Theo, I didn't find him on your character sheet anywhere.

@Winter: Sorry boss Theo is Inks grandfather. He's in the people section of my background. (I don't have him as a Contact cause he's family) I would like to add him and Inks grandmother to NPCs but am unsure how to rate his connections. Basically Theo has Connection 2 or 3 except for his cousin Fernando who sends him Cuban cigars about once or twice a month (Fernando is in the Cariibbean League and there's my problem) Sorry to bug you, but I want to finish this before the game starts. (Okay very late for me, ability to type slowwly dropping off, must sleep)

Give both of them Connection 2.

From what you've said on the wiki, he's basically a local shopkeeper, roughly equivalent to a bartender. Having a cousin overseas who sends him cigars is reasonable, makes sense, and does not increase his Connection materially. Certainly not to a 4 just because he knows someone from out of town.

Note that this assumes he's not exactly into criminal activity (which I do not sense from your background). He just knows people because they come to his store. If he is involved with criminal stuff, it may change my assessment. Sound good?

Wiki GMs - I added one location in Bellevue just on the other side of the 405, across from the Side Street Rollers turf.

Per our earlier discussion, I would just lump that in the sector with the former Side Street Rollers turf. There's no need to create an entirely new section of the map for 1 location in Bellevue.

Don't forget to update your contacts Lindt, lest Konsaki's twisted imagination dictate their creation.

Draft of Shade is up under the 'Gang Roster' section. Main page, Background, and Gear filled in, takes to follow shortly.

Feel free to start writing your takes of Shade now, those who feel so inclined. I doubt the final version of him will change much, except to flesh out particular details/aspects of his character.

Can I get a clarification about skill caps. It says you can only have one skill rating 4 and the rest are capped at 3's including groups. Then it says you can specialize stuff up to 4 but if it goes higher then that you need extensive reasoning to explain it.

Does specializing in something and raising it to rating 4 count against the only one R4 skill cap? I notice alot of characters have more than one 4 in their skill section.

Whats the difference between having 5 specialized R4 skills and 5 R4 normal skills??

@ES Sparky/Badmarsh. Ok this is what I got from looking at your gear section.

12,498 of 12,500 used. All prices looked correct. Here are some questions though.

-Your shotgun has an internal magazine which means its the kind that you have to shove bullets into so I dont know why you baught clips for it?? Who knows how much a bandolier costs or how much it holds.

-Your pistal holds 30 rounds a clip and you have 150 rounds of various ammo. But if you count the clip the gun comes with and the 2 spare ones you baught you still need 2 more. Which ould be moved down from your shotgun?

-you skinlinked your contacts and glasses but what about your commlink??

@Lindt/ Child

28,775 / 30,000 used. ( 29,075/30,000 if corrected)
-your shotgun has a free shockpad and image scope. They are not in your gear list and would you want your scope to have any mods?

-your didnt take some of the common matrix programs??
-Your spur costs 1800, not 1500. If you correct it you get the number in parenthesis up above.

everything else looked correct so you have almost 1k extra to spend if you want.