Nope, I think I'm good.

As an aside, I was sorting through bookmarks and I came across this:

http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/t...76795789327.pdf

Very handy crib-sheet for SR5 hacking. Definitely worth checking out.

-DrZ

DrZ: Are you using your commlink or the one Ramirez gave us to contact him? I think Overkill has the latter currently, but I assume he would pass it over to you. I'm trying to keep all of the commlinks straight...

Jack, good question - assuming Grease says he is using the burner link, why don't we assume the following:

1) From now on, when contacting Ramirez, you will be using the 'link he gave you unless otherwise specified. If you split up again, someone has to claim ownership of it, so we know who would have access to it.

Dirty Ork snaked my seat... JK. I can run the bug scanner remotely, but I am not sure on the Area Jammer.

I am a little uncertain on the idea of using a regular taxi as a trail car. If the drek hits the fan what are the odds we could get him to drive into the shooting?

I would like to add that I would perform Matrix Overwatch whenever anyone uses it.

I think I previously used the Burner link, presuming that Overkill would hand it over. I'd be using it for this as well.

-DrZ

So, just out of curiosity, once you nail down how exactly the meet is going to happen tonight, will you be skipping time forward, or will you plan to try and do something in the meantime?

I don't have anything else, but I'll ask the rest of the group.

Also Lobo- you've got a little formatting error in your last IC post.

-DrZ

Oh no! I think you misspelled the word Discrete, LOL.


I don't think we really need the area jammer, particularly given that it is a forbidden item. If someone had a White Noise Generator, it might be a good idea to bring it along.


I was metagame thinking Amy could call up Tony. That dude drove through a pack of ghouls like it wasn't a thing. I imagine he would consider any drive outside of the Warrens to be pretty liesurely.

Fixed - thanks!

@Grease,

The Thomas murder is the "Magical Assault in Apartment 16F" as opposed to "Stingray's Revenge". Your point may still stand about not enough time, but you shouldn't be covered in dirt

I imagine we can fade-out while we put the route together? Should we roll a Navigation check to put a decent route together? Amy and Overkill are going to need to direct Tony.

I propose that we skip ahead a little in IC for the details of the plan. We got a good idea of what we want and I think the GM can fill in the gaps with what our characters would know and be able to find out. What do you think?

ETA: Great minds think alike.

I don't think any skill check is necessary - basically just drive from the pickup east to Quebec Highway, then north to East 72nd, and then west to Mccormicks.

I assume the plan is for Ramirez to take a second cab that he calls back home, while Tony (Turbine) drops you two back off at the rendezvous?

If so, I just need a couple of things:

1) Confirmation that we are done until the pickup from everybody
2) Where Turbine is picking you up, and where Turbine is dropping everybody off.

ETA - so Amy and Jack are good - just need confirms from Overkill and Grease.

LOL, sorry. I'm still approching this whole thing as a surveillance detection route. Lots of planning and skill tends to go into those things. I'm good with keeping it simple.

Also, Jack will need to figure out some way to get back to the Warrens. Since Grease is going to drop Ramirez at McCormick's, that should be when Amy and Overkill can have Tony break off from teh follow and head to whatever drop-off point Grease is going to use to ditch Jack. Jack would just head over to Tony's cab and get in there. Then we all head back to the Warrens and Grease can head back to his place for the night if he wants (at least until we head to Sagebrush early in the AM).

Are we at all concerned with Amy and I being followed while trailing you, essentially leading them to the Johnson meet?

I imagine y'all would not stop anywhere close to the drop-off. You either don't make the turn towards McCormick's or (if there is no turn to make nearby) you keep driving past McCormick's.

I could summon a spirit and give him instructions to watch over the astral and check whether anyone/anything is following us or seemingly trying to find us. Couldn't hurt.

You could summon it and put it in the front seat with Tony. He's always wanted to be a shadowrunner apparently, so he needs to meet a spirit. Plus it can use its Concealment power on your car, which should make it somewhat difficult to keep track of your car.

Grease is a go. Don't wait on me.

I'm not sure you want to use a Concealment power on a car driving in traffic.

While it will make the car more difficult to see by someone trying to keep track of your car, it also makes it harder to see for people actually driving on the same road....

I've always wondered about this power. If someone doesn't have to make a Perception check to see something (as the rules state, obvious things don't require a check) can Concealment make them harder to spot? I always thought it had more to do with hiding things if they are already somewhat difficult to spot (like a car at some distance in traffic) rather than things that are obvious (the car right in front of you). I guess either way, a case can be made for people not noticing you in their rear/sideview mirrors, which would probably be a bad deal.

I'm with Lobo here, I don't think concealment is appropriate. It's a power that hides the target (and I'm not even sure it can be used on physical objects like cars to begin with).

My intention was really just to have astral surveillance and optional back up, nothing fancy.

Well, it's a (P) power, so it works on non-living things. Whether the spirit would have a high enough force to effect a car is probably a different story.

By astral surveillance, you mean looking for watchers, spirits, or astrally projecting spellcasters following us? That makes sense.

Yes. We're not sure if we're being followed and the astral is one way to do it. My character can't project and using a spirit for this task makes sense. The spirit can come in handy if there's trouble as well, assuming I get more than one service.

For me, Concealment is just another form of invisibility, although one just tied to vision. I would give the Concealment penalty to someone trying to hear a runner concealed by a spirit as well.

However, that does present a problem to keep in mind. I glossed over it when Amy was back in Los Mags territory and was on the line for the drugs, and then had the spirit conceal her. To all intents and purposes, she would have just vanished from the line, which probably would have startled some people - but there were other ways she could have gotten away, it wasn't important to force a confrontation, so from a storytelling perspective, the she would have wandered off a bit and then the spirit would have concealed her.

As Jack pointed out, it is a Physical power, and so could be used to Conceal a car, but since my Honda Accord weighs almost 3,000 lbs, and you can affect a number of metahuman sized targets equal to the Spirit's Magic, you would probably need to have a Force 15 spirit or so to conceal it.

Let me know when you need me to, and I can write transition scenes if necessary - I see two needed:

1) Turbine picking up Overkill and Amy
2) Grease and Jack arriving at the pickup spot and picking up Ramirez.

I believe there was talk about leaving something in the back for Ramirez, that should probably be worked out before all this happens, as well as Amy summoning the spirit. You can roll for it, or I can, whichever you prefer. If you want me to roll for it, just let me know the type, force, and any powers you summon it with.

Hmm... did Ramirez look like he had a datajack or anything? Something he could slot a datachip into to review stuff? We might just want to go ahead and create a virtual dossier for him to review with our results so far (video files, quick write up of each incident, etc). Probably wouldn't take too long to create a text file and attach the videos/photos that we have.

Amy will wait until sun down if possible.

Summoning Force 5 Spirit of Man, Optional Power: Movement
12d6.hits(5)=4

Spirit resisting the Summoning
5d6.hits(5)=1

Amy resisting Drain
13d6.hits(5)=6

She'll get 3 net services and no drain. I'll say those were very good dice.

I imagine this spirit of man looking like a shepherd who cares for his flock. After all Amy is in the shamanic tradition and she also has the Protection totem. I will try to write up something regarding her mentor spirit in game at some point, as this has not been developed yet.

You did not notice a datajack. That being said, even if he doesn't have one, he can still use his commlink to read it.

Very good dice indeed

Sun down is around 8:15 PM at this time of year in Denver - so you will end up summoning it right before Turbine picks you up, I imagine.

OK, if Ramirez can probably access a file, I'd like to propose that Overkill edits a file together, embeding the video that we have from the different murders that we have available, stripping out any identifying information that may be visible (i.e. anything that might compromise Argent or our other sources).

In essence, we would basically be replicating that powerpoint presentation I put together in the Dropbox. The only one that I think where we may need to conceal something is the Manuel case. Even though Ramirez should know what to expect from shadowrunners, I doubt he'd be happy to know that we stole personal effects from one of the deceased.

If you want, I could probably edit the Powerpoint Presentation into an actual prop that we could provide to him.

If you would want to edit it, that's fine - not really necessary, as I understand the gist of what you are going for.

If you do, I would really appreciate if you took advantage of the "Star Fade" function between slides. The pun would make my day.

-DrZ

Sadly, my Powerpoint doesn't have the star effect.

OK, I cobbled together a file based on the Powerpoint. I think I removed any references to actual witness names from the file, particularly Stingray and Argent, neither of which I imagine would appreciate being identified to a Lone Star officer.

Feel free to review it and let me know if I should change anything.

Ok - looks like we are ready to go, I'll wait about an hour just in case people need last minute things (and to make sure Chrome gets a chance to chime in since he is on the west coast).

After that, I'll put up Turbine picking up Amy and Overkill somewhere in the Warrens (unless you want him to come to Nic's - that's up to you), and the transition to the meet.

Overkill will put the file together.

What was that link for the Office programs someone mentioned? I need to get around to downloading it so I can look at the file.

We should probably meet him around the block, somewhere in walking distance from Nics, but not right at the place.

I think it was Open Office that was suggested. I might be able to flip it to a PDF if you can read those.

ETA: I flipped it to a PDF if you want to take a look. I'll delete it once we're good as it will start to eat up the Dropbox capacity.

I think I covered everything...

Does anyone want to add anything?

If not, then I'll have Ramirez answer Jack.

Looks fine to me. The main point was said first: Bradshere, and the case file.

Grease is content to let Jack lead the convo since he isn't on Ramirez's best side. Ie I'll pipe up if necessary, but otherwise feel free to keep going.

I'm going to wait for Overkill to have a chance to respond in OOC in case there was anything I missed. The only other things I can think of that Ramirez could help us with would be a bit involved and possibly but him in danger (cross-jurisidctional reaching out to Sanders' attorneys, getting Overkill access to the Lone Star Host, etc).

I was thinking about getting access to the host, too, there might be no harm in asking politely.

Actually I think you covered all 3 points we needed most.

Gonna be out for the rest of the day, so feel free to move things along without me.

I'll go ahead and float the idea of getting access to the Host. We'll see what happens. I'm pretty sure the Magic 8-Ball is going to be pessimistic on this one, LOL.

Smooth

Just saw Jack's post as I posted mine. Timeline wise, I think Ramirez would answer him before I asked (if that makes sense to you).

-DrZ

Just let me know when you guys are done with the questions, and I can post the transition scene.

If you do have more questions, please post, and Ramirez will answer them.

I think we're supposed to both bring them in alive and turn them into the ZDF rather than Lone Star to avoid "accidental" deaths of the murderers/conspirators.

I had to go back and check what it is we're actually trying to do



Is "the criminal justice of the UCAS Zone" different from the Lone Star?

One thing we never asked is whether we'd receive partial payment upon completion.