AUGURY AND SORTILEGE
(MATERIAL LINK)
Augury is the ritual of divination. To use this ritual, the magician must assense the subject (person, place, or object) or have a viable material link (p. 297, SR5). Within the ritual circle, the initiate enters a mild trance and interprets the symbolism and metaphors presented to him through the aether. Sortilege is the use of specific reagents (casting bones, reading tea leaves, etc.) or fetishes (tarot cards) as part of the divination ritual.
In gameplay there are two parts to divination. The first part is the successful completion of the ritual. The leader may ask one question about an event in the subject’s future. The question is answered through portent
appropriate to the tradition and/or the divination technique. The second part is the leader’s interpretation of the answer. Using Arcana with a threshold based on the question asked, the leader rolls Arcana + Logic with a
limit based on the net successes of the ritual. Subsequent divinations on the same subject matter increase the threshold by 1. This ritual takes (Force) hours to complete. Requires Divination.

SG p.124

Sounds like it might be worthwhile to check out.

Bye
Thanee

Magic Theory: 13d6t5 2
lol more than twice the DP and half the hits ^^ guess there's still nothing that beats performing the actual profession yourself

All rightey. The moment has passed but now that I know that you as a player are willing, I will recognize open doors.

I will ignore Nova and Muhme for the moment, as Thanee and Jack didn't raise their hands yet.

Muhme spent her time in concentration, so you would only get monosyllabic answers.

Sorry. Pretty busy, workwise, at the moment.

Bye
Thanee

no problem. It was just an information in case you just missed my initial post

I'm currently moving house, so there might be fewer updates then usual - normal schedule will hopefully be back on Friday.

Hope it all goes well

Hardest part is already done, but getting my good suits and shirts there will be somewhat of a hassle

I hope you'll feel @home soon!

I'll be off til Sunday or so. LARPing

So cool... Jealus in ways that I cannot describe. The sacrifices one makes to have a family. Perhaps in a few years when we can leave them alone I'll have more hobbies.

The daughter of a two-year-old attended the LARP. ^^

Pretty young to have a daughter

oh damn xD
the mother, of course

Not in my life, we are sort of on our own childcare wise. I could send my wife, but I use all my relationship credits for conferences.

What time do we have now?

Bye
Thanee

By now its around 1900h

I'm on vacation this week and the next, so a little slower to react.

Bye
Thanee

What did I miss? Which two cults is Anna speaking of?

This is what I meant.

Btw:
Weight you get from the depth of the imprint
Height from the average distance between prints
For everything else there is magic

@Jack that is pretty cool.

I know theoretically but I don't know a single person who is capable of that. So, bnc is pretty stunned.


"Koselbruch" So sad that the reference is wasted on bnc ^^

Give me a Matrix Search (30 Minute Intervall) Threshold 4 to find de la Noir's commcode

And yes, I'm a Krabat fan

Matrix Search: 18d6t5 9
Wotcha. That was easy ^^


Who isn't?

People who don't know Ottfried Preusslers stories

They don't count ^^

Hey folks, sorry for disappearing, getting caught up now.

Jack, you probably posted in parallel to Anna doing the assessing.
I'll post once we get some feedback from Jack.

Rule question: Why do I get marks from a failed data processing action?

Control Device test on a device you don't own and hasn't an associated normal action is a sleaze action

CONTROL DEvICE
(VARIABLE ACTION)
Marks Required: varies
Test: (as action) [Data Processing (or special)] v. (as action) or Electronic Warfare + Intuition [Sleaze] v. Intuition + Firewall+
p.238 Core

@Jack must say that I admire your mastery of the rules. Haven't played many RPGs but SR5 is by far the most sophisticated I tried.

Agreed. Thanks for clarification!


To what did the others react? Why did Nova go dark? O.o

Ohhh... I totally misread that.

Sorry, it wasn't bnc telling us, that she was targeted by a hacker, but someone else, that the drone picked up. Doh!

I will change my post.

Bye
Thanee

ah, that's why ^^ I thought I missed something.

Anna will take the fastest route:
She'll augment her reactions to drive better:
drain vs 3: 11d6t5 5
Driving: 11d6t5 5


PS: I don't know how Jack sees it - but it feels that Anna can perhaps run faster than the bike with the movement metamagic (she has a bound spirit with that power)?

The Movement power works on vehicles, but it is much more difficult to achieve good results there. Just see the Movement power on p. 399 SR5.

What are the specs of those bikes?

Handling?
Speed?
Acceleration?
Body?

Bye
Thanee

Well - with agility 10 - running speed is 40 km/h, now multiply it by 6 and wonder if Anna really needs a bike to be on pursuit (I bet if it is a very long pursuit she'll get tired running - but she should be able to run for say an hour/half an hour?)

Actually, with Agility 10 running speed is 40 m/CR, i.e. 48 km/h. With Movement, that would be almost 300 km/h. I don't wanna see her tripping over a pothole, though ^^

So, casual walking is at 150 km/h then... sounds good!

Bye
Thanee

To clarify:
Cross country is the shorter route
Street is winding and therefore longer, but naturally it's a lot safer.

Stats for the ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS CYCLOPS:

HANDL 6/4 (Smart Tire and Offroad Suspension)
SPEED 5 (Improved Speed)
ACCEL 2
BODY 4
ARM 4
PILOT 4 (Improved Pilot)
SENS 4 (Improved Sensor)
SEATS 1

Driving with AR improves your Limits by 1

And yes, running fast is all well and good, but handling those speeds is a different matter entirely.

Driving it is AR enabled to keep all 5 hits. Taking the short route.

@Jack What went wrong/What did I miss?

James has a running rate of 80 m/CR. Being explicitly optimized for exactly this kind of task (with hydraulic jacks and so forth), 6 hits should do to maintain most of the speed. So let's assume at least 60 which is the exact middle between walking rate and running rate.
For 1000 m, it would take me roughly 17 seconds - less if I can go faster (up to 12,5 secs at max speed).

In these 12 to 20 seconds, they managed to stuff whatever they were using at the moment into their bags, grab the girl, take up all of their gear, shut down the entire digital environment, move to the car, open it wirelessly, "still took two trips to bring out bags of equipment to the car, before getting in it", secure the girl inside, and move the car off the property? Even if they were reckoning with an attack, they won't be able to freeze anything they do mid-sentence and have everything at the ready within milliseconds ... or would they?
To be honest, I thought I'd arrive before they even really made sense of the situation. That's why I was a tad surprised that I come so late.

They reacted pretty fast, because they were prepared to leave anyway.
If you want to know the reason for that...
The clues are all there

Okay, but still ... carrying the girl and all the prepared stuff, returning twice to the building, then back to the car, open and enter the car the old school way without wifi ... in 15 seconds? That's pretty damn fast.

But okay, if they are so fast, I'll roll with it.

Arguably, you can get done quite a lot in one round, i.e. 3 seconds in Shadowrun. 15 Seconds are like 5 combat rounds - for three unaugmented people these are about 23 complex actions and the corresponding number of free actions and movement.

The two trips they made are the reason they aren't gone when James arrives but are still putting the car into gear.

Well, I wish I could get my kids out of the house in SR time frames
- I am delaying until Jack brings Anna there.

Volker, perhaps you can just follow them with the munin drone stealthy, or disarm their car?

*sigh*
Would you believe me if I say I'm doing this for your best? Engaging three hostile mages with one precious drone...

@gilga
6th world, all cars have mirrored windows to prevent exactly that - giving mages line of sight to occupants.

@Jack
I believe you. I didn't argue any further, too. Although, no need to protect me/bnc this way. As I stated before, she wouldn't have picked a fight with them. If she would have had the chance to interfere with one or the other from a favored position one on one, she might have done it, but she wouldn't have gone into a fight with three people - mages or no. You know bnc - she's not a Leeroy Jenkins. She only takes risks when she is in a good position - or when she's being nuts (again). Anyway, nevermind. I just wanted to know whether you missed something or not. I doubt you know all the stats of all the characters by heart. Though I do admit that I prefer not being protected from my own mistakes too much, but I trust you as a GM.

@gilga
Sure, I could. But bnc isn't doing it. You might consider asking her instead of me.