Ok, Flowers probably got splashed with enough debris that he quite readily looks like he's dead to anybody that might happen to wonder by.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I hope I can remember!


Can you roll for me? I'm going to be away from home for another day or so.
You caught that Sledge is running right. I wanted to fire when he could run on the same turn for this exact purpose.

Running got you to the corner where you could see the troll. You did not have any more movement left in this pass to be running away from the troll too. If you had wanted to wait until you could fire and run away in the same pass, then we need to change the order of things. You would not have fired yet and instead of charging towards you, the Troll would be running out into the main shopping area where the grenade blast had just gone off taking him out of your line of sight.

That is what I had wanted. I will have to get him to follow me another way.

I posted a what if, that way we did not have to go back and forth, and I gave you what I would do if I could move again, or if I could not. If you want, I will ask questions before posting, but I thought that if I posted what I wanted to do if the situation were A, B or C, it would speed up the process.

That should help, if it comes to that.

Bye
Thanee

I must have missed that in the long times between posting. Sorry. I guess you didn't shoot the Troll then and he has instead run into the shopping area still with the girl in his arms then. Don't worry about a defense test in that case. I'll update the map shortly.

Okay. I still have the same plan, to get him to chase me toward the explosives, so on my next turn I will continue to track him. When I have the chance, I will take my shot and try and get him to chase.

Ok, I was trying to wait for Redjack to post actions for Takako, but I think it's better to move on for the moment.

I've updated the StufferShack Map with the movement of the Troll who just ran out into the shopping area clutching the squealling girl to his chest as well as Sledge's movement to the back corner of the the stock area.

At this point, the Lieutenant that's driving the van gets control of it and starts speeding his way out of the parking lot, turning onto the street to head East down the road.

Flowers is feigning death along the back wall and has not attracted the Troll's attention.

There's some further movement in behind the building where none of you can see the other agent running Eastward down the back alley.

Then we are back up to the top for initiative pass 2.

We can assume that Takako is doing something outside, either trying to stop the van get away or just saying frag it and deciding to wash his hands of the whole matter and just bugging out.

Angel want to be doing anything else to the Lieutenant's cyberdeck?

Following Sledge's declared actions he runs to the corner of the doorway (doors destroyed by the grenade blast) to again get the troll within his sights. Though he delays in firing yet again to ensure that he has enough time to shoot and then run.

The van's loud exit from the parking lot caught the attention of the troll who, seeing no other movement assumes it was the source of the grenade blast, charges towards the front of the store to chase after it.

At this point, he's is closer to the front door than the back where Sledge is hope to draw him into a chase. It's a shame the explosives were specifically angled to blast the employee hallway. Because if they weren't, you'd totally catch the troll in the blast with him being so close to the registers. If you want to gamble, you can try triggering the first charge you set in the hopes that the grenade jostled it enough that it's now facing the direction of the troll.

The Lieutenant drives off further on his pass and the makes a turn at the next street that would take him North (toward where the back alley lets out and where he's planning to pick up his agent).

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At this point, I this point, especially with how slow updates have become, I'd say we need to decide. Do you guys care about what the troll does to the girl he has firmly grasped in his arm? If not, doing nothing else should see him running off into the night to never bother you again. If you do care, then I guess we can continue in the current vein and get this scene done with eventually.

What do all of you think?

My bad. Somehow I got it in my mind I was waiting for something.

The van impenetrable, he ignores it. With the window now blown out, he charges towards the troll one more time.

Feel free to make an attack then, or two attacks even. One for the third pass of this initiative pass and then again for the first pass of the next combat turn.

Charging Attack: Unarmed(6) + Specialization:MA(2) + Agility(7) + Charging(2) + Wounds(-2) [3,3,1,2,1,5,3,1,1,5,4,4,6,5,5] = 5 hits
DMG: Str(5) + Critical Strike(4) + Net Hits(?)

Standing Attack: Unarmed(6) + Specialization:MA(2) + Agility(7) + Charging(2) + Wounds(-2) [4,2,3,3,6,1,3,6,1,5,3,3,1] = 3 hits
DMG: Str(5) + Critical Strike(4) + Net Hits(?)

DAMN! For dramatic effect he received your charging attack by bent down with a snarl to your level and roared so loud that even your firm resolve was shaken. Not really, but come on, when he gets 8 hits out of 11 dice on his defense, something cool has to happen, right?

For your second attack, he got only 2 hits. He got 5 hits and so takes another 4 boxes of damage....oh were you going for physical damage or stun damage again?

Also, you notice that the troll very distinctly was pulling the girl back away from you when your fists were getting past his defenses, almost like it was trying to protect her...

Stun again. I want him down, not killed.

Well, shit. I just riled the hulk up again...

Actually, doing stun damage was the right decision. You manage to stun him into unconsciousness as he curls up protectively over the girl and collapses to the floor.

If you could see astrally....well, I guess I should reveal that stuff since the only group member that could see into the astral is lying dead a couple meters to your left. Suffice it to say, you see something dramatic and tumultuous occurring beneath his skin. For a moment, it almost seems like he's about to explode into a sickening spray of blood and guts Big Trouble in Little China style. Then it begins to subside and his flesh slowly loses it's bulk.

Just before he passes out into unconsciousness, he says "Don't....<cough>....hurt her...".

The girl in his now human arms is balling and cursing up a storm in your direction demanding to know why you hurt her new friend "you monster".

I'll try posting up something IC tomorrow to wrap up the last events as best I can. What are you guys going to be doing from here on?

Did you want to leave the scene as quickly as possible? Try to pursue the men who fled the scene in the van (Angel is still connected to the guys cyberdeck and could certainly track him)? Wait for Knight Errant to eventually show up and interrogate you all? Take the kid to an orphanage now that her parents have been slaughtered? What?

Team members being down, I vote to collect them and get out of Dodge.

The only thing of interest would be some info on what they actually did here... but I think I searched for something like that already... so, no, nothing else... will simply get out then and back to the body to see what's going on in the meatworld.

Bye
Thanee

Sounds like the girl was the target all along, but was she being kidnapped or rescued?

Sledge is collecting his explosives.

As a team, I think we should collect the girl, the troll and our comrad, then meet at our safe house. We can interrogate the troll for info, and use Angels Intel to locate where the van went.

Then we can avenge Swims!

I'm on board with that! Ya'll are gonna need reinforcements though...

Just to keep from us getting too side tracked, I'll tell you that the girl is a red herring. She was simply an innocent girl that actually was able to cut through the trolls rage and was calming him down....until a grenade went off and the troll's rage kicked in again, this time thinking to protect the innocent.

How can we chase the wild goose now?

Okay. New plan.

1/ Collect the troll, girl and Swims
2/ Interrogate Interview the troll
3/ Track down the van via Angel's intel
4/ Avenge Swims!!!

Okay, same plan, reason and result, only a different MacGuffin.

Sounds like a plan. It's looking like I won't get the time to post anything IC up today. Would you believe I have a bunch of Canadians breathing down my neck at work? French Canadians at that. Anyway, I've gotta put a rush on some work for them and I don't have enough time just yet to post anything significant.

It looks like we can move smoothly on from here.

The only person we haven't heard form is DireRadiant/Flowers. You still with us Dire?

Are we moving to a new thread or staying in this one?

Do I rebuild my character now, or later?

Sorry, I've been busy and haven't had a chance to post anything more lately. I would think we can continue using this thread unless you all would like to start fresh with a new thread.

I guess we've lost DireRadiant/Flowers, but I will message to double check.

If there are changes you would like to make to your character, now is the time to do it. Just tell me what you are planning to change.

I'm around. I'm struggling a bit to find a good character voice for IC posts for Flowers, so even though I do have time I haven't been inspired.

Original Skill Set

Adjustments:
Subtracted Automatics Skill (4)
Reduced Computers from 3 to 2 (1)
Reduced Crossbow/Grapple Gun from 5 to 4 (1)
Reduced Gymnastics from 6 to 4 (2)
Added Throwing 3 (3)
Added Perception 5 (5)


Am I missing anything else obvious?

If this looks good, and legal, then I will cut and paste it to my character sheet.

That looks reasonable and fine. You can go ahead and update your character sheet.

Sorry for all the delays. I'm trying to do NaNoWriMo this year and it's really kicking my butt. I just close out one of my old games though with a 2800 word post. So, hopefully I'll be able to update this game with something similar tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed.

I'm glad to see we still have everybody with us.

No problem. You replied a lot faster than I got my updates to you!


Sledge is now updated and ready.

Finally made the IC post to get you all out of the StufferShack and on the road towards a safehouse.
Anywhere in particular you guys are going to? Anybody have ideas on what to do with the little girl? She's asleep for now, but she's bound to be handful when she wakes up.

I also left a hook in there for somebody to give phlapjack77's new care a call to tell him about the death of Swims-with-Sharks.

Can't really think of changes for my character, unless you want me to bring the critical strike into line with the clarified rules?
And of course, as a player... Is there Karma for our introductory scene?

I'm fine with keeping your critical strike as is.

I suppose I should give you guys some karma for this. Because of the extended nature of pbp games I'm tripling the amount of karma you'd typically get for something like this. But it's still not much because it was just a single scene.

Everybody that survived (sorry Swims) gets 3 karma for surviving. Everybody (including phlapjack's new character) gets 3 karma for taking down the troll without killing him. Unfortunately, there is no karma awarded for saving civilians because every last one of them that the troll could have killed was killed and the only survivors were the innocent girl that had actually been calming the troll down before the grenade went off and the woman Takako shot as she tried to flee.

I'm tempted to be mean and give Takako some Notoriety for shooting the innocent woman, but it was dark enough that she couldn't have recognized him and she did live. So no worries.

Fortunately for you guys, the enemy decker had shut off the video feeds before anything broke out so there was no evidence to connect you all to the destruction. So, no Public Awareness either. The incident does appear on the local news as a brutal massacre by unknown gangers. But the Sixth World is a brutal place to live. This was not big enough to get more than a mention in the day of's broadcast.

So, does anybody actually have a safe house that you are all travelling to? Or do you need to call a contact to secure a safehouse temporarily? Or are you just going to somebody's home to interrogate the troll/human?

I'm cool with you all dropping off the girl with the Lone Star contact without a hitch. He might start asking questions when he finds out the girls parents were involved in the massacre at StufferShack, but he's willing to a favor for you (though a little extra nuyen might quiet any questions that would otherwise trouble him). You can post an IC convo for that yourself if you like.

I will post some IC for dropping the girl with LS, since it seems no one is in disagreement with that route. He is a level 2 contact, so I thought that would be a good contact to use.
EDIT: I think I will post this after we decide where we are going first, for continuity purposes.

I don't have a safehouse, so we should line one up, or I got a shadowrunner bar we can use the backroom. I think this guy is like the Hulk, so we don't want to interrogate him, but rather interview him.

I have to spend my karma, too.
EDIT: Or not. Based on the table on page 107, it is going to take a lot more than 6 Karma to do anything.

Ok. I'm cool with you posting the girls dropoff whenever. I don't see there being any problems with that.

As far as interrogating him goes. He's currently unconscious due to stun damage and has some hefty physical damage on top of that. Depending on how well he rolls, it may not take all that much damage to knock him back out even if he were to "hulk-out" as you suspect he might. I just wouldn't slap him with a stim patch to wake him up early, because that keeps him up even after he fills up on stun damage.

Regarding Karma. You're right, 6 karma can't get you all that much. I'm considering moving to the karma model Aria uses for the persistent 2072/2075 games. Instead of getting karma based on mission goals and whatnot, you'd get 1 karma for every new IC post you make. Does that sound good to you guys? (this would not be retroactive- it would only be for posts going forward from here)

Anyone got a safehouse? You guys could take the troll there, while Sledge drops off the girl.

I'm guessing from the lack of response that nobody has one that they want to use or a contact they want to particularly call upon to get one.

So to keep us moving, I'm going to say Angel gets frustrated with nobody having any real answers on what to do next. Sledge making the call to his contact in the Star reminds her about having Stefan's number. She decides to give him a ring just to distract her from the circular discussion going on about what all the attack means and what their best options are. As it turns out, he's working a job right now where some guy thinks his doss is haunted (all evidence says its not haunted, but Stefan is perfectly willing to take the guys money anyway). Anyhow, Stefan has the place complete to himself for the next two days and it's a pretty off the beaten path kind of place. Considering he wants the full details on how his friend Swims-with-Sharks died, he's perfectly willing to let you guys come 'help' with the ghost problem (i.e. use it as a safehouse).

Either Angel or Stefan can post up something IC to that affect or I'll try and post something this weekend.

Checking in. Everything seems to have ground to a halt. Takako does not have a safehouse. Let's get one and move forward. Everyone still in?

Still here. Sorry, was very busy lately...

Bye
Thanee

Yup. Sledge dropped the girl off in my last IC.

Sledge scratches his left buttock, "We going to get some revenge, guys?"

And they all died sadly as Sledge stabbed them and took all their nuyen and karma. The end.

I think everything is tied down until the new year. My PBP games are stagnant right now as well.

I figured... but hadnt seen anyone for 3 weeks, so I thought I would bump the thread so it didnt disappear.

Yeah, things are quite over the holidays (and before and after) usually.


A Happy New Year!

Bye
Thanee

Happy New Year!

Given the last scene, Takako is still in the van. Obviously Sledge took the girl. Flowers and Angel still in the van or elsewhere?

Is this game dead? Roll call.

Here. Let's game.

Looks pretty dead to me.

Bye
Thanee