For those without contacts, I think Hellcow would be excellent at securing gear.

All I need are a survival kit, canteen, and rations. I'll sleep in the van, where I can be alerted by the computer if passive sensors detect anything.

Just because he's a mental incompetant doesn't mean he's not a competant runner. This stuff is definitely his weak suit.

Sedryk, I'm assuming you specialize in wetwork, though Skeeter wouldn't immediately make the association.

um, actually it does. Shadowrun isn't something you can be a savant at. It isn't one thing. You can be really perceptive, or really good with a gun as a savant. You won't be both. It's your character play him however you like. But he is an incompetent, and if Shadowrun were real (haha) he would never survive the shadows. Good thing it's not real eh?

TKG, empty your PM inbox

Anyway, I lost my character sheet in a reformat. Can you send it over? Thanks.

Well, can someone help Paris get gear? Or is Fredrick available for such purposes?

JaronK

Prepping the call for gear now IC. I'll probably go through the IC thread and make the complete shopping list tommorow morning/afternoon, to give everyone a chance to say exactly what they need. So I suggest checking the suggested survival gear list, and post IC what you still need. If that's ok. I'll then total the cash needed, see what we can't afford both and time-wise, and make the check(s).

• Survival Kit (see above for what it contains)
• Survival Tent (camouflaged)
• Thermal Sleeping Bag
• Climbing Harness & Gear
• Load-Bearing Harness with four Small Equipment Pouches and Two Large Equipment Pouches
• Nav-Dat GPS (just to compensate in case the cyberware gets damaged; they're cheap, and they can do more than the implants anyway)
• Ordinary Clothing (camouflaged) with Insulation 2 OR Camo armored fatigues
• Standard Toolkit (mining)
• Flashlights (low-light and standard) (IR?)
• Backpacks for bigger stuff and carrying samples out, or are the large equipment pouches adequate?
• Snow gear: ice axes, cleats, snow goggles, snow shoes, skis
• Medkit with extra supplies
• Various slap patches
• Freeze foam - Instant barrier around tents, should provide thermal insulation. Broken bones, restraints, etc..
• Freeze Foam Solvent
• Radio with Encryption

Sedryk realizes that Skeeter wouldn't be around this long if he couldn't handle himself and survive.

The only thing I'll need is a gas mask.

Tisoz I hope you don't mind if I speak to Skeeter in simple sentences.

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Anyway, here's the list of the only items Belfast needs. They're all legal, so it should be easy to just drop by any sporting goods store and pick them up within an hour or so at the most. Don't know why we'd go through a fixer for most of these items anyway, especially with the Street Index of some of them.

• Canteen & Mess Kit (15¥, SI 1, Legal)
• Respirator (500¥, SI 2, Legal)
• Sleeping Bag (175¥, SI 1, Legal)
• Some fookin' Rope (50 m) (125¥, SI 1, Legal)
• Survival Kit (100¥, SI 1, Legal)

What can I say, I like to travel light. Also, just to let you guys know, I only have a rating 2 Transciever with no encryption, and I don't have the cash (even with this 2,200¥) to afford an upgrade to that (it would cost 2,000¥ alone to do it with a waiting time of up to two days). Considering the flux of it and the nature of our mission, I don't see why we need heavy encryption or long range communications, though, so that really should be enough. But if you guys insist on it, the best I can do is Rating 2/Encryption 1 since I have to pay for the other items above and they're a bigger priority. But considering Encryption 1 is about as useful as Encryption 0, it'd just be a waste of money. Just let me know either way.

In any case, if only the items above are good enough, I'll hook Hellcow up with my 915¥ or hitch a ride with someone and snag it at a sporting goods shop myself if he's too busy.

Okay. The conversation about Skeeter is ending about... now. Tisoz, tone down Skeeter's shortcomings a little, please. Everyone else, take a few minutes to calm down. Okay? Good.

Fredrick had his own reason for setting the kid up on the run. He figured that with it being a wilderness type run (which he did hint to everyone, with the bug spray comment) that the kid couldn't cause much trouble and he was doing a big favor for someone else. He may well have been wrong or he might have been right. Given that what's coming up is really a vast unknown, a stupid kid who's got magical stealth and clubbing skills might come in really handy.

That said, if the kid becomes a liability, your characters should do what they feel is best in that situation. I'm not going to dictate the way characters should be played specificly save to request that if there's behavior going on that really galls one or more persons, I'd like to see it toned down.

I expect this to be the end of the matter, for now, at least. Further comments can be directed to me via PM or email (yes, I've cleaned out the PM box a bit). Let's try to make sure that everyone has fun here. That's the whole point of the game, after all.

Your character's intelligence isn't the main issue with me. It's the attitude you've had towards my character. Why? Since your initial post, and the 6 pages that followed, you have insulted and slandered my character with every single post you write.

Now normally I would just deal with it IC. But I can't. Because your character hasn't said anything aloud. So if I want to avoid meta-gaming I have to smile IC and pretend it didn’t happen.

You don't like her, fine. You don't want to work with her, Fine. Have some gut’s and have your characters say it out loud.

Why do you have to passive aggressive about it? Why do it at all? It isn't relevant to the game, the only purpose it could possibly serve would be to piss me off. Congratulations you have succeeded. Throw your self a parade, you made me mad. So there you go, that’s what I believe the real issue is. As far as I am concerned it’s off my back.

Respond however you like, but I think the best thing to do for the game would be for both of us to let the issue drop. I have seen to many games dissolve into useless OOC brawling and I don’t want that to happen for TKG’s game.


So for Raven, if you think she’s your typical lesbian/elf.gun slinger I guess my role playing skills aren’t up to snuff.

Raven is not bi-sexual, she’s not really into men or women (Not that I feel sex has any business being in a role playing game).

She is driven. She is a failed athlete who is looking for something in the world that she can't find in herself. She is aloof and stand off-ish because she doesn't like people. She has a bad reputation with Fixers and Johnson’s which is exactly why she got stuck working for Fredrick. She isn’t mean or cruel. But she has little compassion. I thought I had done a good job of playing her in such away that it was obvious these were her issues. I even tried to show her humanity a little by having her have the jitters before the meet. Oh well.

hehehe.. being the lazy punk I am, I waited until everyone else was done with their gear lists so I could poach.. here's mine:

insulated sleeping bag
survival kit
1 canteen/5 days self heating trail rations
climbing gear/rope
insulated cold weather clothing
maglight

if my fixer tries to give me any "24 hours" crap, I'll just hit the first sporting goods store that opens up in the morning (you're welcome to come along, Rat).

Shotgun!

I was under the impression that since everyone had to use the same encryption, you bought it once for all characters that wanted to use it. I take it that's not the case? And I should warn that Paris only has the 2,200 that was given to him, nothing more. His list was a request for as much as possible of it.

JaronK

You're pretty much stuck using the lowest rating Encryption rating in the network. So if everyone has Encryption 6 and one person has Encryption 1, everyone only has Encryption 1 while using that network. Master units (like Tactical Communications Gear) only have increased range and other perks, but the Encryption works the same way.

Well, in that case Paris is not going to have the cash for decent Encryption to go with his gear, which is a shame. I'm not sure how to correct for that, I'm afraid, except to use code words on the comm.

JaronK

bah! smileys IC! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVILL...

Well I was gonna hit the sporting goods store with the list for what everyone wants, and just call my fixer if there was anything unusual. Hellcow doesn't do much in the planning stage anyway, and this way everyone else could do what they need to do. It sounds like I might be the only one with a decent ID too, which I suspect i'll need to buy stuff legitimate.

EDIT: Put it all together, I need:
Paris/JaronK - 1,900 without the gas detector, I couldn't find it.
Evans/FXcalibur - 156
Sedryk/Chance - 500
Belfast/RoUS - 915
Brand/crechebaby - 515
Hellcow/Number 6 - TBA, looking like 2,500-ish with the GPS

If anyone else needs anything, lemme know now, i'm gonna send the list and rolls to Tinker probably after the Cubs game.

Personal comm unites yes, basic trancievers no. Being unencrypted isn't the end of the world, though, you just have to be careful what you say if you hare reason to suspect spying.

Cool, i'll borrow one of those trancievers. Thanks.

$4,000 is approximately 1,000¥, just so you know.

Paris has got a Rating 5 Transciever with Subvocal Microphone, he just doesn't have encryption for it.

Just ask Paris IC for the money you need, and anything less than 2,200 is yours.

JaronK

Not a problem #6, just ask Raven IC for it.

Tinker: In addition to the stuff listed on the IC post, i'll be buying a climbing harness. load bearing harness, large rucksack, Medkit, survival kit, micro flare launcher and flares, binoculars, respirator, insulated long underwear, and Nav-Dat GPS system. That system is portable right? I pulled the price off NSRCG. Comes to 2,040 total. I should be able to find everything at a sporting goods store, right?

Shadow: Did she mention them in game? I musta missed it.

Most likely. You might have to visit a few, but it is nearly winter time, so a few of the better stocked ones would have stuff like that.

Just make an etiquette roll or intelligence roll (your choice) to aquire the gear. Assume the TN is the highest avail in the lot and the same for time. Then just figure out how you actually got it

Okay, you guys are apparently looking at a completely different stat block than I am when it comes to the Otter. The thing has as much cargo space as a delivery van. There would be no trouble carrying a Body 2 bike (approximately 7 CF of space, out of the available 48 CF the boat has). Sports cruisers are really big speedboats designed for offshore fishing and, well, cruising.

I know it has a fair amount of cargo space. However, people can't be stuffed into trunks. Does it have any seats beyond the 2 bucket seats it starts with?

It's no different than people sitting in the back of a van. It comes only with two seats standard. But bolting on two bench seats (if deemed necessary, which it isn't) would take up minimal space and load compared to what's available.

Bench seats are only 6CF each. Which is, frankly, insane, but it's what the books say

Anyway, I need a plan of movement ASAP. We're moving ahead first thing in the morning (if I don't walk into work and find myself neck deep in work like I did today).

As it stands now, there is going to be some shopping in the morning and then at dusk the team is going to move out, half in a boat and half in a sub/van.

Ammend that as necessary, and include your destination. Some people might have forgotten, but the survey gear is stashed somewhere on the road between Seattle and Vancouver. It'll take a side trip, backtracking, or a circuitous route to get it.

Well, I was gonna put the order in tonite, it shouldn't be much past 8pm. We can pick the stuff up and leave in the morning.

Tinker; YGPM

Alpha Team should deal with scoring the survey equipment since they're more mobile on the land. Otherwise, Bravo Team would have to carry it overland to the boat, and that's... just not a good idea.

Yeah, bench seats take up less than a cubic meter. That's crazy. But another crazy thing that kind of balances it out is that during vehicle design, it costs 500 nuyen to add a single CF of cargo space. So money-wise, seating is still terribly expensive.

Say guys, we're splitting up into two teams, right? Who's on which team?

As far as I can tell.

Alpha Team
Thor
Paris
Swift Eagle
Evans
Brand

Bravo Team
Sedryk
Skeeter
Belfast
Raven
Hellcow

But we really didn't decide on this before we launched.

Oh and I brought my dirt bike.

Heh, I'm pretty serious about deadlines with this game. I intend to push it on as much as possible so that we can get a conclusion (one way or the other) within a reasonable amount of time instead of letting it devolve into the Planning Session That Never Ends™ which I've seen happen many, many times with online games like this.

Hmm, so the team's leaving already. Guess I better work up what I'm bringing along. Lessee now...

Hmm, so much for getting the chance to use Concealment before we left...

Roll up a spirit, RoUS. We can revise if necessary.

Alright, I sent a list of gear of what I'm bringing along. Check your PMs, TKG

I'm not sure if Great Form spirits get the Remote Service ability since they can cross domain borders, but if they do, I'm sending Elizabeth (the Force 5 Great Form Hearth Spirit Bel summoned the evening prior) to protect the van. If not, I guess they're on their own assuming we didn't split up (which... seems odd) in which case the Undine's Concealment will cover both with Elizabeth backing it up with her own use of Concealment.

By the way, I didn't mean to sound bitter or anything in my last post. I was just a little shocked. I'm thrilled to see us skipping ahead, but it would have been nice if it was just to the departure time instead of already underway.

EDIT: Calculated his Great Form TNs wrong... shoulda been 9 instead of 7. Same result though.

No dice, you're still spotted. Only barely, though. Per the next post, I'll redo these rolls when I repost the next section.

In the interest of fairness, I backed us up a bit. Now it's time to leave but we've not set sail yet.

The move-ahead for casting off is tomorrow morning.