Fair enough. Just saying that is an option depending on if it something your character would do.

Yes. Absolutely. ...but only if you plan on never seeing us again, if there's any accountability that really hampers my "Sell all your stuff" plan. (Plan A)


...back to the planning though, as I understand it that's exactly right.

...but now that I've mentioned it, how strong does this separate winch assembly look? Does it say the weight rating? (Of the winch, not the microwire!) If it's 200lbs or more, we could shoot the target and drag him to our building after Mr White rufies him. ...just throwin' that out there.



Unrelated, my thing got extended. I will have internet access Thursday, and then be (most likely) out of contact until Sunday evening. Sorry. D:

Ummm .. are we ALL going across this line to the other side ?

how the hell heavy is Gardner ? no offense if he is just big boned ! but how big is "Giant" ? 3M ? 4M ?

and sod the winch, what's the strength of the anchor on the grapple ?
(the rope is usually able to hold heavy stuff)

but we may have to adjust the plan to someone having to anchor the rope better on the other side so that the team can follow.

The description of the winch says it can pull "small objects". I wouldn't say it's enough to drag the target anywhere.

The line itself can hold 2000kg, and for simplicity's sake we'll say the grapple can hold the same. I'm pretty sure it can hold the group of you even with how much Gardner weighs.

One question though...what order are you guys planning to slide down that zip line? If you're planning to all reach the other side and wait to drop to the balcony when the time is right, that means you'll potentially be slamming into each other, especially if somebody fails their skill test to slow down. That might hurt a little were Gardner to be the last one on the line.

game of "Rock, paper, Panther Assault Cannon" to be the last across ?

in other news we have enough rope to drop a line on Our current side of the building as well .. for anyone wanting to wait over here and cover our arses

I'm going to ask that you drop the line on our side of the building as, although it's going to suck balls, Needle may need to evacuate quickly enough to get the bus in position when you guys are ready.

you can borrow my parachute ?

BTW, Mr. White I'm handwaiving that the ticket your contact sent you temporarily altered your commlink's bio info to reflect the name on the ticket.

I know commlink security issues were something you were concerned about after the last run and didn't want it to look like i was trying to take advantage of you not knowing all the ins and outs of the Matrix.

IC Mr. White has reached the point where you guys have about 6 minutes left on the clock.

At what point where you going to shoot the grapple across and start heading over? Has the grapple already gone across? Are you waiting for Mr. White to arrive at the banquet?

Just need those on our side to suit up and from an orderly queue !

Not yet.


Silas had some questions in IC for other folks, which you have answered about weights and stuff.

I have setup a drop line on our side if I can find a suitable anchor point.
do you require a skill roll of any kind ?


I beleive we will shoot NOW, given the information .. depending on the skill for grappling I may not be the best shot (Rifles for example)

Silas will be the first across though, and will climb off the zip line to securely anchor the drop line on the balcony.
so the bag of goodies will be going with me..
he will activate his Ruthenium armor and I believe we have some magical cover as well. ?

Base jumping from the roof of a building? That has epic written all over it. Sign me up!

You have no difficulty finding something stable to anchor the line too. the roof has heavy A/C units setup here, as well as the structure housing the stairs that provided roof access, etc. And I'm not going to require a skill test.

Grapple Gun uses the Exotic Weapon Skill. I'm going to say you automatically hit the building. So no worries there. But how well you roll will determine the location of the anchor and a glitch could warrant somebody noticing the noise of it embedding into the building.

I'll totally allow it if you want with minimal risk even!

Default to Agility ? does our in-house weapon specialist speak up ? otherwise I'll roll it


The wingsuit is in the bag, grab it and suit up, it has a built in parachute for added awesomeness ... Live Vicariously my Brother ... Fly Free, Fly fast ... Live .. not very long

Yes, it does default to Agility, and you are welcome to use Edge if you want.

Ok, so I'll suit up as I'm waiting for the sniper to get back into signal range. When I've suited up, I'll get the command for the bus ready to have it meet us in directly below our current location. I'm not sending the command yet, just getting it ready so all it will require is a simple keystroke to send it.

And I just had an amazing thought on what I'm going to do here. Assuming I can pull off what I'm thinking (sorry, Slacker, but I'm keeping this a little quiet until it's time), this is going to be amazing.

Hmmm Thrill seeking poor self control you say ? toting a grappling gun you say

Edge is for wimps and those who lack the courage of their convictions ... OR ... those who really should look before they leap

Grappling Gun: Default to Agility ( 8 )
(8d6.hits(5)=4)


It's the Suit !! it totally causes these moments, I tell ya ... totally down to the damn suit

Thank you!


Gang, White is going to try to lure our target out on the balcony. Easier for everyone. If he can pull that off, great, action time! If the target is not willing to go outside, or worse - becomes suspicious- White will press a button on his comlink in his pocket that will be the GO NOW signal. Cool?

Sounds promising.

You have absolutely no problems hitting exactly where you want. The grapple buries itself into a seem in the buildings structure with hardly a sound. The only evidence it below is a tiny bit of dust that is shortly whisked away by the wind.

AlllRight !! ... I've got a 2 hour drive home from Manchester, followed by cooking food and walking the dog .. so I'll post this as IC later

peace out boys

Wait, your thinking about the weapon specialist shooting when your defaulting dice pool is 8??. Good lord, man.

I think the ideal set up for going across would be Gardner/Silas/TW/Eclipse. That way the heaviest/biggest people go in first to avoid any unnecessary squishing in case of glitching. We'll need to be overhead of the balcony at least 30 seconds ahead of time, I would think.

And I think Mr. White has the right plan for getting him out.

I'll call up my bound earth spirit to use guard on people if they aren't sure of their climbing skills. I agree with zephyr's order, although Gardner will let Silas go first if he insists.

Also, people can stay behind and go down the line on this side if they are really unsure.

I would suggest using the rope for Needle, if you're nervous about sliding down a rope, as what makes jumping with a parachute better? Again, I can have a spirit help make sure you don't glitch and fall.

Finally, because I don't want us caught with our pants down, I am counterspelling on the team. When Mr. White comes back in view I'll cover him too, unless I specifically don't have the free action to spare...

I've updated the image I created of the city layout with a current day google maps image if anybody wants to take a look: Cityscape
I'll work on a better drawing for the actual banquet hall and balcony as soon as I can.

I've updated the banquet hall map.

What application did you use to create the banquet hall? I'm looking for something I can use for games I run, and I haven't found anything really worthwhile yet.

Oh, i wouldn't recommend what I use for most people. I created all the patterns and objects myself in Adobe Fireworks which is really more for web design. But I use it at work all day and am comfortable with it.

I've got GIMP, and I'm awful with it, but its better than nothing.

I'd make a snarky comment about GIMP, but every time I try to use it my Photoshop muscle memory gets in the way and I end up getting pissed.

I'm too anal about making things pixel perfect for me to like using GIMP. That's why i like Fireworks for being able to quickly and easily set each object at a specific x/y point with specific width/height. I also do everything with vector based graphics so they scale with ease and clarity.

DOH!!! just realized i neglected to mention something Gardner will be interested in knowing. The banquet hall itself appears to be warded. I should have told you about that when you used astral perception to realize the blue dragon has a physical mask spell on himself and that there is an illusion that the balcony look like it's covered in water.

Because I failed to mention it before now, it's not going to affect the Improved Charisma spell you cast on Mr. White. It's more that you would have to step through the barrier before any of your spells could affect people within it.

yeah, would have been good to know, but it's okay. I know how to deal with it, and we'll just move forward from here. Things shouldn't be too different, even with the ward there.

If its worth doing well, its worth doing in PAINT

OK Thanks for understanding I have no idea how I overlooked it before now

Obvious Troll is Obvious.

Does anyone have any gecko gloves / knee pads? If they're willing to use them, or let Eclipse borrow them, I think if we can have a couple people stuck to the wall waiting would be good to at least delay things if our zip-line party is spotted en route.

Just a reminder, after tonight I won't be able to post until Sunday evening.

I have gecko gloves and part of the plan was to be above blacony out of sight until "GO" time.

if Gardner wishes to go first there's no problem in that, he's bigger n' me and can go anywhere he chooses I'd suggest we go in the 3 minutes before the drop to get setup

Garnder to sort out the magic defences, Eclipse and TW to get the climbing gear ready for the descent and me to climb above the balcony for the drop.

Sounds good!

Mr. White rides the elevator.

Didn't seem worthy of an IC post.

Quick! Grab all of his stuff!

Yeah, yeah. I was just giving eveyrbody else time to post up what they were doing while you were traveling between buildings. I'll post up something IC for you arriving at the banquet hall in a little bit.

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Everybody that is going across on the zip line, go ahead and give me a Climbing + Strength (2) check to try and stop properly on the other side. Remember to subtract 1 from your Strength for defaulting if you don't have the climbing skill.

Just realized I forgot to mention the scale for the Banquet hall map. Each "square" is approximately 4mx4m. Once inside the hall, Mr. White will be able to gather that the section off to the left of the map is the kitchen. Oh and how did if forget to draw doors for the kitchen? lol.

Slacker, any sign of our target? I don't suppose I'm lucky enough that he's sitting at the table? Boy wouldn't that be hilariously anti-Shadowrun.

Our employer was really specific about time. Is it exactly 15 minutes? I'm wondering if he's just being anal about the time, or if some other sort of event or distraction will occur at that point.

So, darkened room, presentation on a stage, lots of people sitting around small tables. Right? This should be interesting.

I'm still waiting on the sniper's commlink to come back into range. Do you need an IC post for that?

Strength 6 + Climbing 1 = 2 hits. TW's good. I'll post something IC momentarily.

Give me a Perception Test -3 for the general low-light conditions and glare from the brightness of the stage lighting that makes the rest of the room appear all the darker.
And no, you aren't so lucky that he's at the same table with you.

That's cool. You may want to assume that Gardner went down the zip line before you did.

Around the time people start sliding down the zip line, he comes back within range for you. He's no yet over to the balcony. So no worries that he'll spot them just yet, but he is heading in that direction.

I have a question that is both IC and OOC.



Now, if this were an actual job that an employer hired a group of skilled people to do, and he wasn't going to micromanage it to death, we'd wait until after this presentation, when the mingling started. Per his requirements, we've begun the extraction. There are runners on a zip line, and White is in the building looking for the mark.

But I know how Shadowrun works. There's an equal chance that our employer will accept nothing less than Mr. White jostling his way through the quiet and dark hall, peering at people, trying to find the mark, while helpful and polite guards encourage him to return to his seat. Then when he finds the mark, he has to whisper to him "Hey, I know we're in the middle of a presentation for your benefit, but I need you to come outside with me for a minute. Its for something really important. No, no it cannot wait twenty minutes until after this presentation is finished." I swear its like shadowrunning is just a 2073 reality tv show, some weird version of Punk'd meets Jackass meets Candid Camera. The whole world must be watching us, laughing at us trying to meet these sometimes insane demands.

*cough* Sorry, I'm better now.

So, that question was: Are we supposed to yank this guy out right now, during the presentation? Or can we wait and grab him during the mixer bit?