Honestly, that would open up a huge can of worms.
Turning the car invsible turns the occupants invisible just like turning a runner invisible turns also their stomach contents invisible

Now, turning a part of the car invisible would likely work, but then we get into territory of: Can I turn part of my body invisible to see what's inside? Can I turn the safe door front plate invisible so I can see the gears inside? Can I turn the smoke invisible so I can navigate without problem?

My interpretation is that for the spell to work, it has to be able to enclose an object or a person in a bubble and that there has to be enough space between the objekt/person and it's environment for the spell to register what you want invisible and what not.
With people it's easy - they haven an aura to guide the spell around them and their worn gear. Turning a whole car invisible is also possible, as the contact points between the wheels and the ground are comparatively small. Turning a lamppost fixed in the ground invisible would not be easy to do, as it's not a discreet object from the point of view of the spell, but an integrated part of the environment.

Basically: If it can't jump (theoretically) isolated into the air, you can't turn it invisible.

I just wanted to read about Nova taking a shot through the barrier
I accept this decision:

Anna's actions are 1. Command spirit to materialize in the car and petrify the mages.

Then she'll want a chance for a line of sight - is the crack she used to listen suitable?
not sure what to sue the other simple action for otherwise (perhaps reckless summoning?)
If line of sight can be established she'll petrify herself the driver or the mage at the back.
Petrify F6: 19d6t5 4
drain: 15d6t5 4

would take 1 drain due to reckless spellcasting.

You can get line of sight by staying behind Taurus.

I'm waiting for James' action before I can react with the two in the car.

Ah, sorry. I was waiting to see whether or not Anna's Petrify spell worked. So, I'm still delaying that action.

Alright, so delay:

The driver resists with Body and Counterspell:
Spell Defense: 10d6t5 6
Resists

The spirit spends its action materializing.

I interpret Nova's action as being held with a free action spend to talk.

The driver throws a fireball at those he can see.

Fireball F6: 13d6t5 4
You can drop your Ini by -5 to evade, otherwise you have to content with DV 7P AP-6 Fire Damage

If you have to evade you lose your held actions.

Sorry, I didn't specify, but yeah, that was the intent. Looks like they do not intend to comply, though.



No evade.

Damage Resistance 14 hits

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Thanee

Taurus will evade, over the top of the car if possible.

Thanee, what do HSA and SBL stand for in my damage resistance rolls?

Anna retreats, dropping her init to 10 - (losing third init pass).

Is James within range?



Second question: If James gets damaged, how much time and nuyen would I have to spend repairing him?

Heavy Security Armor
Synergist Business Line



Assuming, you are in the "light" armor configuration, that will be the Synergist with just a half-body FFBA for 31 dice +6 from fire resistance (which cancels out with the AP).

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Thanee

@Volker
yeah, at 12m across, James is most likely within the AoE.
Repairing James follows the rules from Rigger 5 p.29f

SPARE PARTS
To repair a vehicle or drone, you need to have the parts on hand. These can be purchased from any shop, hardware store, or junk yard for five percent of the cost of the vehicle or drone per box of damage on the Condition Monitor that needs to be repaired. You can also scavenge parts off of similar vehicles—more about that later on. If you don’t have sufficient parts for your repair, you’ll take a penalty to the Extended Technical Skill Test, depending on how short you are: Increase the interval to one day, and for every box worth of parts you lack, you take a –4 dice pool penalty.

Once you have the parts and tools sorted out, make an Extended appropriate Mechanic + Logic [Mental] Extended Test, with a threshold equal to the number of boxes of damage to repair and an interval of four hours
(one day if you don’t have enough parts). The modifiers on the Repair Table apply to this test.

Just so we're ready - 2nd round initiative:
1. Anna Initiative#2: 18+2d6 23
2. Sophie Initiative#2: 13+2d6 21

@Jack thanks
5 % of a standard Direktionssekretär or 5 % of James including all updgrades, cyberware, sensors, and stuff?

@gilga we only just arrived phase 2

Anna Taurus do not have an action, James and Nova do.

@Volker
Base costs - otherwise it's getting ridiculous even faster than now.

I guess, Nova will just shoot the woman. Is it possible to shoot her into the shoulder or something, so she cannot harm the girl with that knife?

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Thanee

Oh jeez, the girl!

What penalty would it be to hit the woman?

Would you allow me to direct the attack at her instead of the driver?

The girl is basically cover. So if you tie, you'll hit the girl. (That's one of the nicer features of SR: you don't have to subtract dice for cover, so you can leave that to the defender)

Then let's hope for the best!

At least, sitting in the car, should make her defense a little trickier.

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Thanee

I don't? I didn't think I lost my action from the evade. Ah well, soon as I can I am ripping that dude out of the car through his window. We can't kill him, we need someone to interrogate.

You lost the 3rd initiative pass when you evaded -5 to initiative

Round 2 Initiative 24

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Thanee

Initiative: 2d6+15 19

1. Nova 24
2. Anna 23
3. Sophie (spirit) 21
4. Taurus: 19
James?
Driver?

Is the first round completely finished?

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Thanee

Okay, as a GM myself I am going to say this, so if someone wants to take issue, realize I have been there. Jack, I am enjoying the heck out of the game.

This kind of statement quoted above is not helpful, if you have a frustration with game rules not working in your favor or the way a GM might be running a game, take it up in private. Players are not all knowing, and they/we can forget that. GMs could be throwing a little something into an encounter to make it a little more interesting/challenging/exciting/fun, especially when players kind of take an encounter sideways like I am sure we just did.


We are in this together for a fun experience, try to remember that.

Why sideways?

What exactly are you talking about? Jack usually allows the players to roll and calculate the effects of their actions in order to speed things up. What's your issue?

Petrifing and smashing someone that was likely the biggest threat

That language seemed a bit aggressive. Might just be me having a flashback moment, if that is the case, my bad.

@Crossbow
Thanks for the support, but no need to worry, that wasn't anything but Volker's directness.

And no, that went as well as could be expected - you have two dead black mages and one unconscious mage as well as one of the hostages.

Actually it wasn't even me being direct as there was not a bit of anything personal in it. It was just me calculating the outcome of my character's attack and making sure I didn't get any rules or assumptions wrong. I couldn't be sure it actually would deal stun only, as, in the end, I don't know how the 29 soak dice are calculated. So I just wrote what I thought was the most likely outcome. Which happened to be correct, fortunately.
Anyway, no worries, there was no aggression or frustration or anything of that kind in the post, just calculations.

Haha! I actually thought about that, too, when speaking to the girl... but I think we are not atually speaking english, just using it in the forum.

I might be wrong, of course.

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Thanee

I'd imagine us speaking German (I mean e.g., it would be strange to speak to the parents in English, and when Anna listens in on the conversation of the crazy mages why would it be in English, are they foreign too?. So I reasoned that we write in English because some of us are just not German speakers.

Yeah, this was merely a translation convention - not that it matters very much. If you talked English among yourself, the girl would have switched to that language as well

Ah, okay, sorry ^^ I didn't consider that, really, especially as at least Anna hardly speaks German (let alone the local dialect).

So, do we just ignore the language barriers for simplicity's sake? We don't have any language all team members speak above a level of 2.

@Gilga: Not sure you can send the spirit after the dwarf girl, don't you need to have assensed her for that?

We do have the hair, so there is something for ritual magic, but a spirit with Search won't suffice, AFAIK.

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Thanee

You only need to have seen the girl to instruct a spirit to search for her, but yes, spirit search failed once already (or at least didn't resolve in time)

Is the picture good enough, then? We havn't actually seen her, yet.

Either way, guess good old tracking might work better, anyways. Unfortunately, Nova only has some Survival, but no Tracking.

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Thanee

Anna can default tracking with 9 dice it might work.

Magic is just crazy ^^

I interpret your missing answers as a "yes", then.

Yes, we ignore translation issues - translations software is cheap and ubiquitous.

Also, good roll on tracking

okay, makes sense to me

I guess, I hope Taurus left something of the stream ^^ bnc's gonna need it, too

I only just realized that bnc is the only one left from Deep Black Sea... :-O

Yes, unfortuantely, forum rpg has a high atrition rate.

How did Taurus end up with Nova? He really can't have tea and watch a prisoner.



I have 2 from my original team of 8, but only 3 total now.

Yeah
But on the other hand - I guess it comes closer to the reality of shadowrunning that a stable team. I guess, fellow runners come and go most of the time.


@Crossbow
They took prisoner and girl together, but you're right about the prisoner. I'd assume that maybe Nova went to talk to the parents while you stayed back with the prisoner?

@Gilga: Don't you want to check (and if so) mention to the parents of the dwarf girl, that she is awakened?


As for the prisoner... I expected for Nova and Taurus to split up at some point, he delivering the prisoner and her bringing back the girl.

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Thanee

I don't see a reason why she would be awakened. It was the BGC that kept her hidden. But sure, check. It's free.

Anna assensed her for her medical state. if need be I'll roll.
assensing: 12d6t5 4