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Yeah, I admit it was a bit dumb.
Though I have to admit that I was somehow under the impression that this area was not that well surveilled, as said dwarf just conjured a spirit and used it to fly an unconscious youth more than 20 meters into the air in broad daylight. As this is both way more visible (than shooting with a silenced gun from an alley) and way more illegal (especially in Prague), I did not really expect immediate police presence. I missed something, didn't I?

The spirit was invisible until he picked up the boy - and would have used movement as well as concealment as soon as he could.
The location - as seen on the map - was smack dab in the middle of Prague - with no dark alleys close by. And silenced just means people aren't going deaf

Well Anna would have let them have the boy because it is a populated area. She acknowledges Nova as team leader so she did as ordered. It is done anyhow.

I was surprised that the stunbolts actually worked (first time for me).

@Crossbow

If you want to organize a car, do you want to rent, steal or abduct someone to do so?

I think we have seen what abduction will accomplish, it will take longer, but I will rent one. I will see if Eliza can arrange one first though.

So basically they did the same as we did. Ostentatively commit a crime in broad day light and then try to shake off the police. We just did it better

@Jack: The reason, why Nova was not getting out of the car and got the dwarf with her long arms was that she would not be seen near that location, actually.

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Thanee

Well, as explained, there were a lot of people around - and you have to open the door to get the dwarf in. I'd accept that Nova put a mask on or something - still at least her cyberlimbs were pretty visibly

Sure, that much is clear.

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Thanee

The nasty thing in SR is that people don't need to whip out their smartphones. Many have cybereyes or other means to take pictures within a split second...

Anybody waiting for someone?

Same question: Anything you need to start your interrogation?

No, I guess we can start there.

Sorry, thought we are waiting for the bnc hacking questions/result here.

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Jack as far as Anna can tell would destroying the statue prevent the ritual?

Possibly - but it might also be just replaced through a similar object, or through a different ritual.

@Crossbow

If you want to intimidate the dwarf, please make a CHA+Intimidation test - and preferably state exactly what you want to press out of her (I assume, you want her to tell you about the rest of her team)

Did Lizzy miss/ignore the question or did you just miss it among all the others?

I missed it - but Lizzy might as well have ignored it. She has a fundamentally different mindset about how to deal with such problems. And she still isn't 100% convinced that a group of foreign mercenaries just shows up to help her out

Stubborn as a dwarf, you know

So-ka

I really gotta start keeping up with OOC

@Thanee

Haha, I also kept grinning about the bullying ^^

Sorry, if I missed that. Do we already know at which point in time the ritual is supposed to happened? That is, how much time we still have, for when to set an ambush, and so forth?

I think it was in three days (after arriving in Prague), I assume we have an exact time.

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Thanee

You now have 59 hours remaining until the BGC reaches peak. The Ritual can be performed before or after about 3 hours, so a 6 hour window.

Thanks!

You seem stuck - is there anything you need to proceed?

Yeah, not quite sure what to do at the moment, except wait.

We don't have any more leads to pursuit. And I doubt we want to break into the gallery at this point to prepare something?

Maybe we can think of a way to prepare and if we need something for that, see how we get it.

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Thanee

There's a lot do discuss yet. How to confront them. What gear do we need? Where do we want the fight to take place. And so on.

Is there a European future version of Home Depot that we can get the fans and stakes from?

Funnily enough, yes - it even has two full pages in the State of the Art book

HomeHelpers

Is there anything left of the bacteria or was everything wasted when Anna got infected?

You made sure to get rid of all of it if I remember correctly.

Right. We totally missed that. Following that, could certainly give us some information about our opposition.

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Thanee

What Taurus is buying from Homehelpers

Fan

Stakes

He will take his monocycle, I am assuming he can carry that stuff with him.

I suppose, that sledge hammer thing is better-suited for Taurus, who could also take a bow, if you can use Longarms with it?

Also, do we need a car?

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Thanee

With that, would it be possibel to combina two APDS rounds to crack the shell and then get a third bullet - say, a wooden one - right into your enemy? How would you rule that?

Munimix was always a problem of the SR system, no matter the edition.
Personally, I'd prefer you wouldn't go in that direction as the rules aren't made to facilitate that (it's the same reason there are no headshots that ignore body armor)
My ruling would be that you can't use the maneuver because you don't fullfil the conditions for using exclusively penetrating ammo.

I think the Dazzlers are portable UV lamps.

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Thanee

all right. Thought so, and it does make sense to me. No harm in asking, though

@Thanee ah, okay. Thanks, too ^^

sorry, hell of a week. I'm back now, kinda

So, what exactly do we pay now?

6k plus another 1k for the second Airbow plus 2k for a R4 autosoft?

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Thanee

9000€

Ok. Nova will pay 3,500¥ of that. Should roughly cover the stuff she wants from the lot.

2,000¥ for ammo and grenades
1,000¥ for one Airbow
500¥ for one Dazzler

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Thanee

James doesn't need an smartsoft - he already has it. The smartsoft should work for the crossbow, too. So, that's € 1,500 less.

Also, thanks for the reminder of active targeting. I dunno why, but I keep forgetting about that time and time again...

What I didn't find: What kind of action is the locking itself? Is it an action at all?

Take a look at p.184 core

I did. I read the fucking text three times ... and I missed if three times.
Fourth time, I saw it. I swear, they changed the PDF in the meantime. It wasn't there, now it is. I'm not crazy. I'm not dumb. They changed the text. They infiltrated my laptop. Oh my god, I must delete the internet.
my ass

thanks for your patience ^^

Is Czermak's address in Prague?

Yes, a flat in the old part of the city
There is no mention of who might have been the beneficiary

That, totally, does not sound like a trap.

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