Yeah, other weird shit has benn happening, too.



Hmm. In our credstick/ID system, is there imagery? If so, Blue would not be able to change too much of his appearance.

There hasn't been a post from Bastard in a while, so I will assume stopping in the mall is OK.

Sorry for my absence. Life got busy. I even set a reminder to post and every day I tell myself, "definitely tomorrow."

I am good and will delay my ic post in case one of you all want to put something in there first.

ID system: yes. Credstick: not inherently.

Holy shit! Looking at Google Maps, the Concrete municipal Airport's one runway is 50 metres from the baseball field by the elementary school.

Gives new meaning to the term 'fly ball'. Or, 'higher education'.

When you see two flights a day, in the busy season, it's probably not a big deal.

Well, unless something is about to happen on the way, Koekepan, you could get us to the town. Maybe some atmosphere through description of the way there. I don't think I can do much with Blue until Karmakaze is online.

I am back. Still busy with life and work.



Did we have any direction on this? I cannot remember. Or are we just going to poke and prod the people of the town?

I'm working with three posts in the IC thread: numbers 1398, 1412 and 1415. If you find another with pertinent info, please remind me.

I don't have a clear idea of how to start the search, but if Daisy and the others with her are indeed being held 'on ice', then there should be some kind of guarded facility for that. If we find that, maybe then we can figure something.

Any ideas of yours?

Alright, well I guess we can drive around and also send out a spirit?

I might be long between replies again over the next several weeks. I am working 60-70 hours a week for the next 3 weeks, plus I had a leak in my upstairs bathroom into my living room downstairs, on top of some other home issues, and some minor health issues. All at once. Blarg.

If I need rolls for actions, can you make them for me? The link to my character sheet is in my signature.

Thanks.

We'll try not to kill her.

She'll Just come back as Blue's spirit friend.

Y'all aren't waiting on me are you? I am waiting on Blue's interaction.

I've been out sick. I'm still sick, but stumbling back.

Not a hangover, is it?

I wish. At least I'd have had some kind of story about my week-long bender.

Instead I have a bunch of laundry, a lot of chores that didn't happen, and a new-found appreciation for the value of pharmacists and modern medicine.

"Better living through drugs." The mantra from decades past.

Am I holding things up here?

I was waiting on Karmakaze, actually.

I am holding things up as usual.

Hey, this is cool! Blue can share what he sees in the astral with Karmakaze through the Mindlink. There's a whole avenue of income for mages, showing mundanes what it looks like in the astral.

You still with us, Koekepan? I thought travel, but looking back I see you were ill.

Hope things are OK.

Yup. It was a couple of rough weeks, but I'm soldiering on. Better living through chemistry!

Good to hear!

I missed the issue, but glad to hear you are doing better, and glad the custom bioware is working.

I just got back from being the tour guide for my visiting family from out of states (two different ones from the opposite coast).

Now I have to leave my vacation early to go back to work, so I will get up a post tonight, then try to get in at the end of the week.

Off to my first sheep-herding trial of the season. Wish me luck! No! Wish me compliant sheep.

Will be able to contribute again Sunday night.

You arrive. You look for the off-white blobs. They aren't there. Instead there are brown and black blobs.

Some bastard sent in half-a-dozen Soay rams.

Let the rodeo begin.

In my early days it seemed as if they all were. Run in four directions or turn and fight. Fortunately, I have a "decent dog".

Oh man!

I am back from Gen Con 2024!

I am exhausted, but I am posting now.

Have you guys ever gone?

I played three games of SR 6th edition. I was thoroughly confused by the rules, especially because I made a mystic adept focusing on strength, melee and a weapon focus. In 6e strength doesn't affect your melee damage, and force drain is Willpower + Intellect or Charisma (not + Sorcery), so in the first two games my character was bordering unconsciousness. Third game I used a pregen.

Yes, I went to many GENCONs. At least as far back as #17, for which I had a t-shirt. Back when it was in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Many good memories.

Welcome back!

Well, they have to change the rules significantly from one edition to the next, otherwise people won't be forced to buy a whole new set of books. "Fixing" things in the previous edition is really about keeping up the cash flow.

Truth be told!

How fortunate we are to have you as a GM, then!

Not waiting on me, right? I am waiting on gm input.

Yeah, we're headed down the stairs, straight into the trap the local gang has set for us.

Exactly.

I am lurking. Blue is doing what Karma would do: Ask questions.


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You are right, we could have done some legwork, but I was more worried about getting Daisy out of there safely.

Sorry, don't mean to step on Karmakaze's toes. I just got excited. Yeah, maybe she will be able to give some info about what is going on. Being a op and all, she might have noticed things.

Oh good! ... Dumpshock is back online!

I will try to catch up this week... Been working 65-75 hour weeks for the past few weeks.

I am exhausted.

Wow. What is your work?

I work at a chemical plant and we are shorthanded on top of having a few trips recently. I have been having to work additional shifts to cover for the staff shortage and help restart the plant. Now it's time to cover everyone's vacations. Earning that Xmas nuyen!

I wanted to exchange contact information with Torquey before he went. Can this be edited into a previous post, or have happened off camera?

I have been away from the game for a while. Where is PoliD taking over, where did we meet Booker before, and we are crossing the boarder in Redmond, right?

Yeah, we did scoot ahead a bit. Sorry. I hope Koekepan goes for the info exchange.

Booker is one of Karmakaze's listed contacts and got a hold of Karmakaze to get some help finding Daisy, along with other, smaller jobs which, I think (I too would have to refresh), are to do with PD's messing about.

PoliDemos is around the city, we dealt with them earlier, but Booker filled us in on PD's machinations in the Fremont area of Seattle, sort of in between Lake Union and Green Lake.

Yes, we crossed the border in the Redmond Barrens, which appear to be living down to their name.

You can lean out of the car window and exchange data with Torquey, sure. Post that.

Just 'cause I feel good about it, I'd like you to know that the sheepdog trial season her in Ontario ended, and my dog and I finished second in our rookie class! We are "Reserve Champions"! And so we are automatically bumped up to the intermediate class for next year. I'll be starting my second dog, still a puppy, next year as a rookie.

Back to Shadowrun. Having gone into the Stuffer Shack, Blue realizes he just lost his spirit that had been tagging along the whole trip. What time of day/night is it now, as they sit in the Stuffer Shack?

It's about 4PM.

That is awesome.

I'm going to ask you to reroll that one with a raised difficulty - the background count in the Stuffer Shack is elevated.

Not waiting on me are you? I am waiting on Blue's re-roll.

Re-roll is done in the IC thread.