I cant find where it says he pays you 5% per Loyalty point, although I'm okay with that (if you do find it though, let me know where it says that).

Contacts & Fencing, p. 419

Sure, why wouldn't the writers reference this in both the Contacts and the Gear section, you might ask? The answer is the same one as how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop.

Since it's fairly nebulous, I think being notorious could have it's advantages, provided I keep up on the street-cred aspect of the business

Any thoughts on the Notoriety house rule? Now that we're running, we do kind of need to figure out the effects of things like Public Awareness and Notoriety since the game doesn't really give you much to work with... It seems crazy that they have Notoriety in there, but no actual mechanic for how it effects people (Hell, that makes Bad Reputation the absolute best Negative Quality to take hands down).

@Lobo/Jack: Yep- that's where I was looking. If it's alright with you, I'll go with the more favorable ruling; although using the one on pg 419 makes it have some value to having your face (i.e. ME) try and fence some of your swag, since in theory I should be able to get a better price than Loyalty x 5%. All that said, I think this is unforuntantely another one of those cases where they thought a concept 75% of the way through without thinking of what any of the consequences would be (i.e. a player actually trying to sell an item in game )

Oh yeah, that's part of that "The Chart doesn't match the Text" deal. The text says Street Cred acts as a positive limit modifier, rather than a positive dice pool modifier like the chart says (even though the chart references the page number that says limit modifier).

Ok; I'll try to sell the glasses on my own then. Also, I'll be able to do the same for members of our team (if they'd like).

Ok; I'll try to sell the glasses on my own then. Also, I'll be able to do the same for members of our team (if they'd like).

Once we figure out how much I get for the glasses, I think my shopping list is pretty much complete. I'm almost out of 'yen; time to start a new job!

-DrZ

I stand corrected

With Grease and Jack on board, then go ahead and summon away

So, what are the particulars of the Spirit you are going to try and summon?

Force, Optional Powers, Type, and how many hits do you want to try for?

Ok!

Not sure yet, but I'd like to know, do I lose the reagents if the binding attempt fails?

Don't forget that the item Availability acts as a teamwork test for the Finding A Buyer Part, although I don't really understand how teamwork tests work for Extended tests. Do you roll once at the beginning, adding the hits as dice to the initial pool or do you roll a teamwork test for each interval?

Good question - I believe the answer is yes, in that when you summon a spirit, the reagents are used up regardless of whether or not you actually succeed in summoning anything.

When you summon, you don't have to spend reagents (although you can if you want to jack with the limit). The reagents are used up.

If you attempt to bind, I think the reagents you have to use are expended regardless of whether you succeed at the binding or not. While it doesn't explicitly state that, there are no other uses for reagents in core that don't consume the reagents as part of the process (with that said, artificing explicitly tells you that the reagents are used at the beginning). I know the folks on the Official Boards roll with the reagents being expended per attempt.

Grease's shopping list (all items include COLA):

• Berwick Suit. 2,990, availability 9. Armor 9, custom fit, +1 to social limit, -2 to concealability. Wireless: +1 to social tests. Category: Armor
• White Noise Generator, Rating 6. 255, availability 6. Built into Berwick Suit. Category: Surveillance Countermeasures.
• Tag Eraser, 382.5:, availability 6. Built into Berwick suit. Category: Surveillance Countermeasures.
• Bug Scanner, Rating 6. 510, availability 6R. Built into Berwick suit. Category: Surveillance Countermeasures.
• Vehicle Repair Shop. 5,000, availability 8. No category?
• Rent, 3000. Low lifestyle with special work area.
• Rotodrone Manuevering Autosoft, Rating 2. 2,250, availability 4. Category: Programs, etc.
• Rotodrone Stealth Autosoft, Rating 2. 2,250, availability 4. Category: Programs, etc.
• Novacoke, 5 doses. 50, availability 2R. No category?
• Cram, 5 doses. :nuyen : 50, availability 2R. No category?
• Concealable Holster, :nuyen : 187.5, availability 2. Category: Firearms accessories
• AR plans for Doberman, :nuyen : 1,100. Availability 4. Category: Drones
• Fixing Rhex. 400 nuyen.
• 196 regular ammo, 490 nuyen. Category: Ammunition
• Contact lenses with flare compensation, smartlink. 3,445 nuyen, Availability 11R. Category: Vision Enhancers.
• Lunch with Chapel, 200 nuyen.
• Repairing Rotodrone, 1,480 nuyen.

Total cost: :nuyen : 24,040. Remaining: :nuyen : 2,513.

Oh btw, Jack and Grease will both receive 400 from Amy because she sold the focus that was looted at the sacrifice site.

@Jack: Not sure if you factored this in, but the table on pg. 107 says new positive qualities are "karma cost x2". Of course, I'm sure it reads the other way somewhere else in the book..

Oh, I don't need payment for that. If Amy tells Jack why he's getting money, he'll tell her to keep it. Hubert's babysitting meant Nic didn't have to keep babysitting.

ETA: I have Jack and Grease's Resource Chart updated. Can I get a final list (or a link if there already was one) indicating how much money Amy is spending? I have also updated the ammo tracker. It should be current. I haven't touched the reagents, since I don't remember where we are with that (LOL).

So, just to not confuse anyone, you didn't actually sell it, you gave it to Hubert, and are giving Jack and Grease the percentage of what you would have gotten had you sold it, right?

Amy's Shopping List

• Low Lifestyle, Extra Secure, Dangerous Area, Aurora Warrens in Hubert's neighborhood, 2,600 nuyen
• Squatter Lifestyle, Dangerous Area, same location as before, 400 nuyen
• Fake SIN, rating 4, 10,000 nuyen
• Fake Magic License, rating 4, 800 nuyen
• 300 reagents from StingRay, 8,100 nuyen
• Trading in 78 hermetic reagents for 58 shamanic reagents from Hubert, free
• Gift of Ritual Focus rating 1 to Hubert
• Give 400 each to Jack, Grease, and Overkill for the fencing value of the focus, 1,200 nuyen
• Donation to Chomsky, 500 nuyen
• Partying, buying people meals, donating, paying back small debts, and just being generally nice and generous to people around her in the Warrens, 500 nuyen
• Acquiring trodes from Jack, needs to pay to get the trodes out of the helmet, 50 nuyen

Remaining assets: 1,520 nuyen

OK, the Resource Tracker is complete and up-to-date. I even left Overkill's sheet in the event he comes back.

Does this include the 400 you all got from Amy?

Yeah, I added it in for now, but Jack is going to turn it down, so I guess I should just move 400 back from Jack to Amy. Leaving the transfer in place for Grease and Overkill.

Jack, the nuyen and karma expenditures are approved

As far as Contact Ratings/Notoriety/Public Awareness:

Contacts:

New Contacts:

All of you should have the following:
Shannon Greeley L 1
Jim L 1
Ramirez 2

Amy only:
Turbine L1

Jack and Grease only:
Brandy L1

Existing contacts:

Amy:
I'm not sure that you would have any contacts go up in Loyalty, except Chomsky, who would go from a 4 to a 5.
I think it isn't unrealistic that Jack and Grease could also take Chomsky as a Level 1 Loyalty Contact.

Grease
No change that I can see in any Contact Loyalty

Jack
Perhaps Honeypot to 3? I'm not sure only because I'm not sure which emotion she feels more strongly, gratitude at Jack saving her life, or anger that he potentially put it in danger to begin with - probably an equal smattering of both and so no change, but I could be persuaded to make it a 3 given a compelling argument.


Notoriety
I believe Grease picks up a point of Notoriety for the category of "Insulting or otherwise pissing off a Mr. Johnson" (page 368) He already had a point for the Addiction, for a Notoriety of 2.

Public Awareness
Were you not in disguise, the fight at the park would definitely give Amy and Overkill one.
I will say that the Astral Signature left at the apartment, however, is significant - but only to those who can spot the signature, so I'll give Amy a Public Awareness of 1* - i.e. for the non-Awakened, she has a Public Awareness of 0. For those who are Astrally Perceiving her, she has a Public Awareness of 1. (which is still "Unheard of outside the shadow community")

Is Turbine the same person as Tony, the Italian limo driver?
Should we list a connection rating for any of those new contacts?

If there are any house rules or clarifications you think I should have in the first post, please let me know.

I think that's everything we had discussed throughout Broken Star. Only suggestion would be to remove the ETAs from in front of the existing House Rules. It would help to distinguish between new house rules and old ones.

Grease would also refuse the 400 from Snap, because he got a new drone out of the mission, and she is obviously homeless (or near enough).

@Lobo: Can you add the little OOC tag to the new OOC thread?

I'm on pins and needles to find out the nature of the revenge alluded to in the title of the new adventure. Maybe we aren't getting a particularly "nice" run this time.

@Lobo: Can you add the little OOC tag to the new OOC thread?

ETA: DrZ, I just realized we actually have 60 SMG APDS rounds. That would be enough for exactly one magazine's worth for each of our SMGs. Want to split them 32/28 between us?

Sounds good to me. I need to figure out various stuff I purchased throughout the adventure, but my sheet is mostly up to date.

I will have to remember next time to wait until after everyone has updated their sheets before wiping the Resource Tracker. With that said, it doesn't usually say specifically what was purchased or give an idea when it happened.

I know you bought a gas mask, armor vest, a Meta Link burner, and (IIRC) four sets of coveralls. We bought other stuff like restraints and grenades, but they have all been used up.

@Lobo: Love the Tribune. I always forget to buy stock in companies we're running for or against. Nice little Pyrrhic victory there. Poor Twoman, we never knew ya'