grendel: edited my last IC post to reflect the fact I missed a large, beige truck right in front of me that I have keys to.

And Extreme Ways always conjures up The Bourne Identity whenever I hear the song. Not a bad thing.

That's part of the reason why I chose it. Also, you're clear until 1400 on Wednesday, so post as desired.

Sedna- Decision time again. Please be clear in your response, since Alleycat's thoughts can sometimes be a little confusing, especially with the random thoughts thrown in there.

The-Eyes: Posting that list of open and reserved Shadowland deckers was an excellent idea. I hope that everyone uses that list as an opening to begin adding some additional conversation to the SL thread, I know that I will Your efforts have also inspired me to open up another opportunity to the LiTS community. As everyone has seen, I post as SheepDog and supply information based on each 'game-day's' police action. All of those events are real in the LiTS world and can affect the lifes of a player.

I would like to offer all PC's the chance to submit (to me) any stories that they would like to appear in a SheepDog report. These would be events that you feel might involve one of your PC's contacts or associates. Events that add color to the world and to your own personal story. These will all be reviewed to make sure that they do not clash with the current story, so don't worry about that, just be creative . . . .

Sedna: Virgil knows what Jonah looks like, but a description of him was never presented in-thread. Do you want to post here? Or at least throw in a description of Jonah and I will pick up from there? Thanks a bunch.

Do you need more of a description, bandit? It's difficult to tell from the photograph, but Virgil would know he's slight of build, on the small side of average, dark brown eyes with the usual slant, coarse black shoulder-length hair usually tied back into a ponytail. Cindy remembers him as wearing a plain off-the-rack business suit, the kind that no one really notices, it's so common. She thinks he can probably handle a gun, but rarely carries one (she's pretty sure he wasn't carrying one that day, and she'd thought of herself [at the time] as good at spotting those things); and he probably has some martial arts training, but so does everyone in those kinds of positions.

I'm going to assume that everyone with a wristphone with a screen has the capability to send pictures. Considering how pervasive phoneshots are currently, I'm thinking that's only reasonable.

I'll try to follow up your idea a bit later, Eyes. It's a good one. Right after the calendar (Weekend downtime occurred right when I was free to try catching up.) It's literally that I never considered any one of those NPCs "mine" -- I'd pulled more than half of them from the existing thread before I was part of it -- but some of the other half do have active plotlines going on around them.

Oh, and I never explicitly mentioned it: I liked your "random friends" posts

I see a decision to say/accept or not to say/accept. She won't say those words, because she can't (yet?) accept what they represent. Was there anything else you needed from me here?

Nope, you did great. I'll get a response up later today. Love when work is slow. It's about time!

You're up Sedna. Feel free to post any actions you undertake or thoughts Alleycat has.

If you decide to leave the bedroom and explore, she will see that apparently she's on the second story of a house, with three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor along with the master bathroom and the master bedroom. Downstairs there's a kitchen, living room, family room, dining room, den, and foyer. The basement is something along the lines of a rec room, with a workout room down there as well.

Please stop with her either deciding not to leave the bedroom, or if she does leave, stop with her in one of the rooms (your choice) and examining that room, and I'll pick up from there. Does that make sense?

Bandit- I'll be waiting on you for our storyline, just fyi.

More immediately relevant is whether she sees the sun outside the window

After that she's systematic: going through each room in order. (Have you any idea how much the intensely visual descriptions are throwing me? )

Sedna- She does see the sun. I will describe her reaction. And yes, the visual descriptions are quite deliberate, and intended to convey numerous points/symbol(isms). But yes, the intensely visual descriptions are doing their job well then, if they're throwing you, because after all, Alleycat should be thrown just as much, if not more.

Alright, I believe it was a force three Watcher so Force test. I don't know what modifiers I face so I'll just give you the numbers.

Force: 07 04 02

Paul- OK thanks. Was there anything else you wanted to do before heading off to the meet with Max? If not, you can just skip ahead to that point and we'll go from there, otherwise post what you do in the interim. You're free to post until you either arrive at dinner with Max, or do something that requires my intervention beforehand.

Scrapheap & Slipshade - You guys are free to post for now. Interact away.

Sedna- Welcome to Domestic Shadowrun 101!

Digital- Do you want me to NPC your character again like last time then?

the only thing would be if the wacher shows up before then. If that's not going to happen I'll most on to the meal.

It will not show up before the meal, so feel free to move along.

bandit and WinterRat: speculate at will. There aren't any surprises, desired or otherwise, in your imminent future.

ronin: don't forget that you're an active part of this discussion -- and we'll assume that you've been filled in on the group's objectives, such as Dragon's summarised them to be.

Edit to add a "grr" So which one were you self-betting Alleycat would choose?

Exactly what you did. I self-bet that she would examine the place room by room in a systematic fashion. And lo and behold...behind door number 1 (or in this case, 2)...heh heh heh. Alleycat as a wife and mother. This is truly priceless, from a GM POV. Just so you know I'm having a blast over here.

Also, is there a certain time period we should/can/should not/cannot jump past. I.e., can we move ourselves forward to the meet at the appropriate time whenever we desire? Also, can we meet up with Susan beforehand to pick up the stuff we asked for on the way to the meet without any undue surprises?

I thought you might be [/grr]

You didn't set up a time to meet with Susan, right? But she already has the locker drop set up at that mall near Sea-Tac, your stuff, Sybersnake's stuff, and lots of clothes all around. No complications there, so long as you do it reasonably soon from now.

Have to cut it off early. Tomorrow is a better day.

The time in my latest post is the actual game time. I made an error in my previous post that got copied into Sedna's latest post. When you post next Winterrat (which I will wait on) please use the time indicated in my last post.

P.S. Waiting on your response Moirdryd.

Grendel: I'm gunna take another crack at the chip with that funky encryption. Trying to see if it will tell me where the lock is now that I have the key.

Computer: 14 09 07 05 05 03 03 01
Hacking Pool: 17 09 05 05 02 02 02 01

You guessed it. Decision time yet again Sedna. And yes, I am keeping track of all your choices, cause they all add up to significance.

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (May 11th - May 17th)
Ecclesiastes: 1 pt (May 11th - May 17th)
Bastard: 2 pts (May 11th - May 17th)
Bclements: 2 pts (May 11th - May 17th)
The Eyes: 2 pts (May 11th - May 17th)
Morgannah: 2 pts (May 11th - May 17th)

Go team!

*dances around a bit*

Sedna- Is it reasonable to assume that Dragon knows where the drop is located with their stuff that Susan would have set up for them? If so, can we skip ahead to being at the drop and recovering their stuff?

Frag it all! The boards just lost my rather detailed post to Erebus, grrr . . . .
I'll get it back up Cedric, this is just a warning to everyone to watch out for system trouble.

EDIT: I will replace the post, but it will be brief as I am running out of time before leaving my place and you and I are trying to hit a tight deadline

Copy all your posts people, that's what I've been doing all week, storing my posts offline so in case this happens...the system still hasn't worked out all the bugs yet it seems, so you definitely want to back your stuff up.

Yep, I have a file that I copy all posts of mine and WinterRat1's when they pertain to my character. It's easier for me to spell check anyway.

Slip

Karma For my Players

Sedna: 1 + 1 quality + 1GM = 3
Paul: 1
Scrapheap: 1 + 1 quality = 2
Slipshade: 1

Just in case I haven't made it abundantly clear that Eyes is in no way a "hard core runner," and not even really all that professional.

Also seems to have lost my answer to WinterRat, bandit, and ronin, that it's okay to cut ahead to the Susan pick-up: nothing imminent. Actually, you're clear to at least 5 pm. Just don't go further yet, okay?

ronin: don't forget Daedalus is "with" them through telephone and sensors, although he'll probably be working mostly through Dragon.

I'll stop here unless you prompt me to go further. I do not want to over-run any of your plans. BTW . . .there is never a bad time to practice being social.

etiquette (for the hostess) 5: 05 04 04 02 02

I'm stopping with Dragon here, so when the meet between Virgil and Inleat starts prior to his arrival , Sedna or Bandit feel free to write in Dragon when/where appropriate. I'm guessing he'll make it about 15-30 min late, so however you two want to play it, he can arrive when you write him in. So someone please just write him in at whatever time is deemed appropriate, until then assume he's been in transit and arrives at X time.

Eyes- Heck if we were to count, how many of the characters really count as 'hard core runners'? Even Dragon, Daedalus, and Virgil consider running to be a 'sideshow' to what their 'real jobs' in life are.

My people- In case you haven't noticed yet, I've got my 'rhythm' as a GM back. So if you have stuff you need or want from me, feel free to let me know.

Scrapheap and Paul- In regards to raising stuff, in case I wasn't clear at some point prior (may have gotten swallowed at some point and I missed it) I thought the karma guidelines mostly covered it. Let me know if you've had problems, but essentially, when your character has time to train, just post something to that effect and keep track of how much time you spend. At the point you've completed your training, consider your skill/attribute raised.

I'm not going to meticulously track EVERY raise by EVERY one of my players, or I wouldn't have time for anything else. I'll just trust you're are playing it straight and audit you all periodically. Beyond that though, just let me know what you're raising and when so I have a rough idea what to expect.

I'm thinking that very few persons in the shadows set out to become hardcore runners, or start that way. Circumstances thrust most people into the shadows; where they go from there depends on temperament and which way they choose to evolve. That might also explain why those first few months in the shadows have such a high mortality rate.

But for about three hours in about two, I'm on-line for the duration, today

WinterRat-
Thanks again for the reminder. My storyline hasn't allowed for any training time so far, so I'll have to wait until it does.

Are there any skills that are "trained" simply by use? I'm thinking more the soft-skills such as etiquette, area-knowledge, etc.

Case by case. Ask me if you think you have a specific instance that would be applicable. Also note that 'training by use' time is more likely to apply at lower skill levels. As you get higher however, sometimes the only way to learn is to consciously train.

Using Area Knowlege as an example, you could gradually become more familiar with the layout of the blocks and stores and stuff just by walking the area over and over. Knowing who really owns what building and where the utility lines are (stuff you'd be likely to know at much higher levels) aren't things you just pick up. You have to research (i.e. train) to get that knowledge.

So case by case, and that is the rationale. Does that help?

One of the things I love about the environment of these threads are the seven or so simultaneous discussions going on [/dizzified]

For my part: does "normality" mean that she's back in her apartment? In which case she should instantly know what objective time it is?

No.

Normality = something she is encountering that she has encountered before, acting in the same context/manner here as in the 'real world'.

Her son is still standing there looking at her expectantly, waiting for an answer to his question and breakfast. It just so happens the voice has decided to speak up in her head while she's dealing with her son.

How's that?

Hehehe. . . so very correct. In fact, it makes me think that we need grendel to insert one of his trademark evil laughs into this line of conversation

Just for the record, those laughs of his really scare me. As a GM, not a player. Just for all you players under Grendel who'd like to know that.

If he has any to spare after all those directed toward his players

(In the background, I'm webbing. One sudden server change, one unexpected downtime, one attempt at overhauling the whole thing, one new player brought in, two sudden rapid movements on storylines, and one major distraction by WinterRat and I'm suddenly seven pages behind. But I'm down to five now.)

Thanks, WinterRat

Major distraction? What major distraction?

Aw crap. I didn't ever finish that thoroughly, did I? Was there something specific you were waiting on me for btw, so I can tackle that first.

No smiley, so I'll assume the question's gen: what on-line structure did you introduce me to, last week?

Slipshade, Scrapheap, join the club: we wanted to re-open this for the new year, but it's been absolutely crazy until just a couple of weeks ago. Nice symbolism. Terrible scheduling around those real life things.

Heh heh. Oh right...that distraction...

Anytime. It was a pleasure. I have no doubt further pursuit of that distraction will lead us to new and interesting insights in regards to one another.