Don't pretend that the satchel wouldn't have exploded if we gleefully went up to it looking for goodies.

Don't pretend that the satchel wouldn't have exploded if we gleefully went up to it looking for goodies.

Looking a gift horse in the mouth is a good way to get yourself bitten.

Assuming it's a gift horse is a good way to be fragged by a trojan horse. That's literally one of the oldest tricks in the book. I don't trust this.

Because Bullet Storm is paranoid. Just remember, being paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you, it just means you expect it when they do.

Well, we could put a bullet in it. What are the chances it is the Map, eh?

Appropo of nothing, I just found O'Conner's new running gear.

Double post.

It's been crazy busy this weekend and I have to check what exactly spirits see and how they show what they've seen.

No worries, it was a 4day weekend for most here too, Memorial day.

Alright! O'Connor snags a 1-up!

Well, so long as the autodoc can knock off a box of stun, otherwise when that stim patch wears off, O'Connor's going down.

Farothel, I really need you to be the one to use the autodoc.

First Aid + Logic (2) Test
Autodoc
Medkit 4 = Pool 4

O'Connor
Medkit 4 + Logic 3 - CM 3 = Pool 4

Torley
Medkit 4 + Logic 2 = Pool 6 with Gremlins R2

Starlet
Medkit 4 + Logic 4 = Pool 8

Lil' Homie
Unknown, but would need a Logic of 5 or a good First Aid rating to beat a dice pool of 8.

I can do that, as the heal spell only works on P damage, not S.

Repost relavent data from the rule books

JAZZ
Duration: 10 x 1D6 minutes.
Effect: +1 Reaction, +1 Initiative Pass
Developed by Lone Star’s R&D Division, jazz was designed to
better the odds for run-of-the-mill law-enforcement officers who run
up against augmented street samurai. It’s usually taken from a singledose inhaler (or “popper”).
When jazz wears off, the user crashes and is flooded with despondent
and miserable emotions, suffering the effects of Disorientation (p. 254).
If cram is bad for hyperactivity and feelings of paranoia, jazz is
worse. Roleplaying a jazz user means turning it up a notch, and portraying someone with too much energy to burn.
exhibiting physical and mental side effects from continual substance
abuse. Characters who continue in this state for long will continue to
suffer deteriorating health effects determined by the gamemaster. Such
effects may include:
• Lost Essence.
• Attribute loss (Mental or Physical); this will also affect a character’s natural attribute maximums.
• Psychological problems such as flashbacks, blackouts, drastic and
violent mood swings, paranoia, schizophrenia, amnesia, and so on.
• Physiological health issues as appropriate to the substance, including such fun things as as abcesses, incontinence, a weak
immune system (p. 96), lower pain tolerance (p. 95), slurred
speech, and so on.
• Stun damage that cannot be healed.

KAMIKAZE
Duration: 10 x 1D6 minutes
Effect: +1 Body, +1 Agility, +2 Strength, +1 Willpower, +1 Initiative Pass, High Pain Tolerance 3
Kamikaze is a tailored combat drug. In addition to other effects, it provides the High Pain
Tolerance quality at Rating 3. When kamikaze wears off, the user crashes and suffers –1 Reaction
and –1 Willpower for 10 x 1D6 minutes. She also suffers 6S damage (not resisted).
The repeated use of kamikaze has a destructive effect on the user’s metabolism. Large doses can
cause excitement, tremors, momentary euphoria, and dilated pupils. Excess doses (bordering on
overdose level) cause anxiety, hallucinations, and uncontrolled muscular movements. Even higher
dosages lead to death. Kamikaze users are near-crazed, filled with a feeling of imperviousness and
invincibility, exhibiting almost no regard for their own well-being.

NITRO
Duration: 10 x 1D6 minutes
Effect: +2 Strength, +2 Willpower, +2 Perception, High Pain Tolerance 6
A combination of potent drugs, including novacoke and several other narcotics and stimulants,
nitro’s effects can easily kill a user. It is favored by troll gangers.
In addition to other effects, nitro temporarily applies pain resistance equal to Rating 6 of
the High Pain Tolerance quality (p. 91). After the drug’s effects wear off, the subject suffers 9S
damage (unresisted).

Using First Aid
Characters with the First Aid skill may immediately help reduce the
trauma of wounds (Stun or Physical). First Aid may only be applied
within 12 hours of when the damage was taken. Roll a First Aid + Logic
(2) Test, applying appropriate situational modifiers. (Characters using
First Aid on themselves must apply their wound modifiers to the test.)
Using the First Aid skill is a Complex Action, and takes a number of
Combat Turns equal to the amount of damage the character is attempting to heal. Each net hit over the threshold reduces 1 box of damage.
A critical glitch on a First Aid Test increases the damage by 1D3
boxes; time is increased accordingly.
The maximum damage healable with the First Aid skill is equal
to the skill’s rating. First Aid may only be applied to a character once
(for that set of wounds), and it may not be applied if the character has
been magically healed.
First Aid may also be used to simply diagnose a character’s health,
the extent of wounds taken, or the effect of other ailments. The gamemaster sets the threshold as appropriate to the character’s health or
affliction, and awards information appropriate to the net hits scored

Elven Special Forces Medkit - Rating:6
The medkit includes drug supplies, bandages, tools,
and a (talkative) doctor-expert system that will advise the user on
techniques to handle most typical medical emergencies (including
fractures, gunshot wounds, chemical wounds, and poisoning, as well
as offering advice for the treating of shock, handling blood loss, and
of course performing resuscitations). The medkit’s rating adds to the
dice pool of all First Aid Tests, and replaces the character’s skill if the
character doesn’t possess the skill (Medkits and Autodocs, p. 253). It
must be refilled regularly (usually after every mission, gamemaster’s
discretion)

Lil Homie (Jai) Udo (typical area Boy/guide)
An eight-year-old ork, Udo is one of many street kids who’ll
willingly spend all day and night escorting you around the city.
Like many street kids, he’s got an instinctive feel for danger and a
talent for ferreting out secrets that might be worth a few naira.
B A R S C I L W E ESS Init IP CM Arm
4 2 3 3 2 3 2 2 4 6 6 1 10 0/0
Skills: Automatics 2, Dodge 4, Etiquette 1 (Street +2), Lagos
Underworld 3 (Street Gangs +2), Lagos Politics 2, Navigation 2,
Negotiation 3, Palming 2 (Pickpocket +2), Perception 3
Languages: Lagosian City Speak (N), English 2, French 2, Igbo
2, Yoruba 2
Qualities: Common Sense
Weapons: AK-97 [Assault Rifle, DV 6P, AP –1, SA/BF/FA, RC
2, 38©, gas-vent 2]

I never realized the udo here, like most of the population, are orks. I have been thinking of Jai as a human kid, and a bit older. We can play with that if you like, or we can leave it alone.

He has also probably picked up a Gunsmith knowledge skill at rating 1, thanks to O'Conner's tutelage.

Okay, so farothel's roll is...
First Aid + Logic (2) Test
Medkit 6 + Logic 4 = Pool 10


Is Udo Lil' Homie's family name or his ethnicity? The writing is unclear to me.


I've been envisioning Lil' Homie as a ten(ish) year old human, but I'm fine with him being an eight year old ork.


O'Connor has the active skill Armorer (Firearms +2) 1 and the knowledge skill Firearm Design (Automatics +2) 3, but he doesn't have a knowledge skill called gunsmith.


Is Lil' Homie's stats sheet the full thing, or just what the team knows?

What is Arm 0/0?

Udo is the term used for guide boys.



That was right in line with my thought, I must have said it somewhere. 10 year old human it is.


Okay, 1 skill add in Armorer then.



This is him, and Arm 0/0 means he doesn't come stock with armor.

Well, hold on now. As I said, I'm down for Lil' Homie to be an 8 year old ork. With the growing Englebrecht feud, that adds gasoline to the fire.


That makes sense, Arm rather than B/I threw me off.

Ah, frag, how the hell did I forget to buy him armor?!

So Common Sense is the source of Lil' Homie's competence. I was theorizing that he was an adept that was boosting non-Combat skills.

He is a black kid, Englebrecht already hates him.


No time? No need?


No, he would have been snatched up by someone if he was magical, probably not in a good way.

Fair enough.


Yes to both, but I still feel bad about it now that he's on the front line.


Again, fair enough.

As far as I know, O'Connor didn't get P damage, only S, right? If not, I'll try to heal the P damage with my magic first, as that spell can only heal P. Just let me know and I'll edit my post.

Just Stun damage from that fight. That first aid roll takes Con's stun track down to 7 boxes, so once he applies that stim patch his CM will be zero.

Happy birthday pbangarth.

Thanks. I finally feel like an adult!

What's the current traffic situation? Is the team a minute out by foot or vehicle?

Traffic is light, you are a minute out in the car.

Is there something I am missing about a watcher spirit? I thought they are supposed to be good at searching for things? They only get 2 dice for the pool from what I am reading.

Watchers track with the Search Power which allows them to find things with a Magic + Intuition (5, 10 minutes) Extended Test. So they can't find things quickly, but they can find them reliably.

Con doesn't know the timeframe or mechanics of this Power when he requested a watcher, as he knows rather little about magic. He thinks of them as bloodhounds pursuing a fox, not as drones running a grid pattern search.

So just waiting on the watcher isn't a really viable option. Only thing O'Connor can really do is attempt to combine his Pilot Groundcraft dice pool of 5 with Lil' Homie's navigation dice pool of 5 to get ahead of everyone towards the airport and be in a position to cut off Medjay when the watcher does track him down. Long odds of either roll producing anything useful. Anyone got a better idea?

I'm not sure if a real spirit can do a quicker search. I can summon one of those. Or I can just add a few more watchers (I'll have to look up how many, but I know I can have more than 1).

Spirits of Air, Earth, Man, and Water also have the Search Power.

Do we though? We could try to cut straight through the firefight. Con has one point of Edge left. He could roll a Pilot Groundcraft check with a pool of 8 with exploding dice, or have a reroll with a pool of 5. Also he could use the stim patch now (which lasts for an hour) and have an exploding dice pool of 10 or a reroll pool of 7.

Play it safe or go big or go home?

You do you boo.

How much time has passed between Starlet summoning the watcher and now?

Not even ten minutes, if she didn't change her mind once Frosty gave you the update.

Alright! Two great achievements during my tenure as Torley: The recce at the compound and gaining O'Connor's trust. I feel like a contributor!

I've added a spirit of air to the search. They're more intelligent, so it should be able to search quicker. The watcher I keep running, as it might get lucky (and you can have one spirit and some watchers beside the spirit).

If any of this is useful for getting better transportation, here are some rolls for Torley:

Negotiation and Fast Talk are both 6, CHA is 6
1) 5 hits
2) 3 hits

What the Hell, Commanding Voice, Leadership 6 + CHA 6
1) 4 hits
2) 6 hits

So if I understand the situation, there's two groups fighting and we need to get involved as well to get the item we want?

Oh, I assume that here the magic is back to normal, or at least what passes as normal in Lagos?

I'm desperately looking for some way for Torley to contribute at this point. Searching through his gear, I see that personalized-grip walking stick. Hmm. Has that somehow stayed with him into Lagos (maybe in Hammer Space? ) or did he leave that at home? Not that he can use it right now, but I just noticed it.

Torley is not a contributor with violence. He's been more successful in fights by Commanding enemies to drop weapons or step out of cover. Granted, those were close quarter situations, and he didn't have to shout over a full fledged firefight.

If the fleeing civilians are blocking the okada, we could run across the top of vehicles. Depending on how far off the fight is, of course.

There are at least 2 groups, Apep and Medjay, but Area Boys/Awori have been a constant, and since you are still in Mushin, you can guess by the different gunfire sounds that they are involved.

Normal as it passes in Lagos is an accurate description, the background count is 1.

Speaking of which background count of 1, if loss of Adept Power Points is in Torley's control, I'll have him drop the Linguists power (.25) (not going to be learning a language on the fly here) and one of the 2 points of Improved Physical Attribute (AGI) (.75). He's more likely to be shooting words than bullets.

It is always in the adept's control.

Dropping Spell Resistance

If O'Connor is looking down scope and can't see the wall of fire, does he still suffer the -2 from pyrophobia? Does just knowing that it's there trigger it?

How far is Medjay's hiding spot from that wall of fire?

How clustered together are the Apep team? Are there any operators that are in anyway isolated from their team?

My notes say we bought a case each of smoke, flash-bang, and tear gas grenades. My notes do not say how much was in each case. We also bought a bunch of pouches and such to carry said grenades, but I don't know how much those carry.

?

From this distance, I wouldn't even have given you the penalty for your roll before. Assault rifles have an extreme range of 350-550 meters.
If you are down into your long range it might impact you based on what you are doing.

Very close, like 30 meters



I just told you about the guy that ran of into the building, the rest are not very clustered at all and they all have really good cover.



A case would be 10 or 12, you could safely carry 5 each the way you guys have been running around. Torley may not even have any given his role at the Auction wasn't security.

Although he could have left this kind of gear in the car in the parking lot. Same with any gun he might have been carrying during the current Lagos junket.