Well, it was eight days this time. If DS ever goes down for good, or we decide not to wait, let's find another venue.

I can be the connection: pbangarth@gmail.com

Weird. It was doing so well, then just down, but now smooth as butter again.

Well, I'll make a post later, but Bongo and Willie could ask Selina for a little magic wardrobe adjustment and could tell Lana how they want to play it.

I dunno. Willie in particular is quite happy to dress in mufti. Bongo goes along. They can always bathe later.

Hey! Bongo's score on that drone was epic! Don't let anybody say otherwise.

I'm away from my books at the moment, but Im pretty sure looking for stealth/security tags is a roll.

In any case while Kooepan's post is fine for passing time while the others are up to stuff it doesn't seem to give something a GM would reply to.

Finding stealth tags: 9d6t5 5

Looks as if that went pretty well. I used aeronautic mechanic because it's a flying drone. I would also argue that there should be a bonus because he's not just scanning it but doing a pretty comprehensive structural teardown.

OK. *sigh* I found a chargen problem with Bongo and Willie.

I created them years and years ago, using Karmagen in Runners Companion. I modified my stat sheets for them using sunnyside's additions for Charm City, but kept everything else the same. I was creating a street sam last night, using Quick Willie as a guide, and discovered that his Attributes were weird, adding up in karma cost to a non-5 number. Bongo Slade the same.

Digging around in my files, I find a version of RC dated 2008 in which the errata had not yet been applied. I must have used that way back when because using the X3 multiplier in the 2008 version gives me the Attribute costs I have for both of them. The errata changed the multiplier to X5, as is done in the 2012 version of RC I have used for years up to the present.

So, Willie and Bongo have Attributes that are too high and other stats that probably are in error as well.

I am busy till Thursday, but on the weekend I will regenerate the two of them using both the Build Points system and the Karmagen system to see how close I can come to what I have been using in Charm City. Whichever comes closest to what I have been using will become the new and improved Willie and Bongo.

I don't think there is much issue with what our PCs will do in the next couple of days. Bongo has a Rating 6 maglock passkey, (which I will keep no matter what as he has used it already) so that should get us into the room where Selina can do some magical snooping.

*sigh* Sorry for not noticing this sooner.

Alright, I had some time tonight. I stayed in the Karmagen system and have restructured Willie and Bongo. Bongo wasn't too bad, as I had not gone too deeply on his Attributes. Willie is less strong and less damage resistant now. I might not have taken him past the swamp things had he started like this.

I'll look to see where I am supposed to post the corrected stat sheets and get them up there.

Found it in post #26. Will fix in a day or two.

I appreciate that. One thing about Karmagen is that it is more of a paint to check the math.

Though on that note you're a savvy bunch of players and the house rules were still confusing.

I think in future I'll just throw down some free skills, items, and disadvantages outside of the rest of chargen.

Bongo and Willie fixed in post #26 (if not all that pretty).

Willie had too much in Attributes, so had to cut back a bit and adjust elsewhere to bring karma back to 750.

Bongo wasn't too bad in Attributes, fixed them, and during adjusting I found I had way overpaid for his F1 knife. More adjusting, and I think it's all good now.

(Or too close to make any difference?)

Just checking on Thanee's expectations for what Selina might find in the astral. As I understand it, Astral Signatures fade in hours, but, judging by image timestamps, the flower incident here was 11 days ago, and the other incident on floor 49 was 27 days ago. )

Yeah, I know. But doesn't hurt to take a look, I thought.

Fiona will sneak past the spirit. Finding it later (if we want to talk to it) shouldn't be that difficult.

Bye
Thanee

Ok. Make a stealth roll. Fiona doesn't think it will be that hard. And just roll one d6 on its own.

What is the Background Count for that roll?

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Thanee

Two. By the time she's in background count one she's basically there.

Though on the way she might figure out that the lower background count spans from 49 to 52, with 50 being the lightest, though still one.

Okay.

Infiltration 2 hits

1d6: 3

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Thanee

At least when it comes back, it seems to come back smoothly. Getting my hopes up.

"Hardware Skill' sounds like Tubesnake, but ... Bongo has Locksmith Skill, Computer Skill, and Computer toolkit. Waddaya think? How badly could Bongo screw things up?

I think computer skill is for using the system the way it's supposed to be used or actually fixing things. It might just let Bongo figure out that he could game the system to be able to register without using one of his proper fake IDs. It isn't really made to keep SINless from staying there if they can jump through a few hoops and menu screens. Or that he could just set the door to lock after them, and then use the maglock passkey to get back in.

Locksmith is I think for non-maglock systems, so a good compliment to the maglock passkey on a character. But maybe somewhere in there you could rearrange the guts of a lower level system you have access to where you're smithing a simple lock that enables and disables the solenoid. Like you need to stick a piece of metal into the keyslot to complete the circuit.

The trick with that and just locking the door when you leave is that, in theory, the system could allocate the room to a newcomer.

Or he could call Lenny.

Oh, yeah, Lenny!

With Angel, the team is actually strong in the matrix. Angel just has a little trouble knowing what to do and isn't so mobile as Lenny.

As a reminder for uptown buildings, since I'm sharing links, there's the gimmick that, for zoning and tax purposes, businesses have stuck with the names that were in place now. So the welding places and whatnot are still there.

I cut that post short because I remembered I dislike have the GM's NPCs take too much of the spotlight.

You guys had been doing really well, and I'm worried the forum disruptions have made it hard to follow things. I specifically remember Selina starting to verbalize some theories about what was going on with the attack on the 100th. Maybe one of pbangarth's characters too, though even I'm having a little trouble remembering exactly what they thought.

Though you also have other threads like the photos from the room, and you know something happened to a different group on the 49th floor.

Some things might just be waiting on Paul to decide what to mess with between any data on the drone, the building they traced the operators to, or the cameras on the maintenance tower.

Yeah, those disruptions are not helpful for sure. But we'll manage.

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Thanee

Yeah, I'm drawing a blank and will have to go back through earlier posts. I hope to post something on the weekend, although on Sunday I'm helping my trainer with her ewes that are lambing right now.

Hey, we're back! I kinda wish this forum would decide whether it's dead or not.

Anyway what I'm guessing Bongo's contact would come back with is that they haven't heard anything like that. That would indicate the spirit isn't doing its thing very often.

While team planning is normally good, your fellows might appreciate doing things instead of just asking them.

In case you are missing some of those books...

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/shadowru...game-labs-books

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Thanee

Yeah, got those a week or two ago. i had some already, but for that price the remaining books were worth it.

Got back into the forum in time to get in on the bundle. Maybe a silly purchase at this stage. Though having some of my physical books as digital might be convenient and I wanted to see some of the missions.

I like the idea that they give players individual submissions for various other players. I haven't seen that mechanic since Paranoia.

Though in Paranoia you expect the players' divergent interests to cause the mission to go entirely pear shaped, followed by play on player assassinations, finger pointing about their failure to The Computer, and ending the night with a few of the PCs getting executed for their perceived or actual acts of treason.

So what I'm saying is I can see why that mechanic isn't so popular in games not built around dark humor.

Seems that I can make a post today.

Paul would be happy to do some careful surveillance on behalf of the team. The DB errors have just been killing me lately.

It seems like pbangarth is able to post but it might be hard for Koekepan and Thanee.

However legwork and recon are things Shadowrun can allow you to do in some rolls and compressed time. So if you come back I could see making a post capturing an extended period of actions without RPing the details. If it gets to be a lot, you also wouldn't have to read every post with Bongo. He could just fill in the team at some point in the future if things keep going like this for a while.

Actually, just based on Koekepan's last OOC post I might at some point assume he'd left to do recon at the other building near the cemetery.

Actually, I think anyone can get in. It just might take four or five refreshes before the IPS Driver Error gives up being shitty about it. I'm a little more obsessed I guess.

Alas, I have somewhat limited time before my career eats me in any given day. I know that it's possible to gamble on the database, but that's not a game that I can play.

Yeah, access has been pretty spotty these last days. And, well, Easter.

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Thanee

So this:
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...t&p=1369620

Led to this smartarseing:
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...t&p=1369623

And then some actual rules issues with this edition, which I think came down to:
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...t&p=1369644

Though maybe with everything else we glossed over that bit of detail. Still, plenty of stuff happens "off screen." Willie should have a few options.

EDIT: Is Shadowrun 2050 not in the humble bundle?

Should be in there.

CAT26230_Shadowrun_2050

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Thanee

Yup, got it. Willie stocked up before I got that bundle.

Alright, found it. Guess I just didn't get it downloaded while trying to bring down all those files.

I got a new error, but I appreciate that the error screen could tell I was trying to post and saved the post as text I could copy into a new window.

Let's see what the woman is saying, if Selina feels like she is holding back something, maybe Fiona could use her Influence power on her to make her more talkative.

Bye
Thanee

Yeah, we were not the most perceptive around here. Fiona also only got 1 hit on her assensing test.

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Thanee