Hm. Now that I look at it it doesn't say either way about rounding. I think the default canon rule for rounding is that you always round down unless specified otherwise, but that might be unconscous carry-over from that other game; certainly I don't see it in the book anywhere as of yet. It does specify, however, that new skills always cost exactly 1 karma, whether they are active, knowledge or language (p. 245), so that first rank's cost is 1 regardless, and the second is 1.5 * 2 = 3, as there is no rounding for that one, so the calculation stands. Buying a third and other odd-numbered ranks in active skills seems to be up in the air though.

A bit after that phone call in that same thread is the phone call with Squall at 16:47:12, from Blaze's apartment. After that he takes a short astral excursion, by way of rejuvenation. Take those three as a starting point.

Next, from the main thread:

Erebus arrives at Caveman Kate's at 22:05:04. Max is punctual, he will be there at least ten minutes before.

Revised timeline:

• The meal is set for 8:30 (2030) instead of 10:00.
• Blaze leaves his place at 19:00 as noted, and parks his bike at his destination about half an hour later (1940).
• He then walks the block or so slowly, getting him to the door at 1950, inside at 2000, finally seated at around ten after.

This gets him there only a little more than a quarter hour early: perfect, since he knows Max is punctual (usually on the early side of punctual) and probably has a meet immediately afterwards.

The dinner needs to be completed before nine-thirty.

Unless it's contradicted by canon (anyone?), as of now Catapusan's Sushi Bar is less than a five minute drive away from Caveman Kate's

That okay with everyone?

'course we do! Haven't you been paying attention?

Actually Sedna only mentioned it once, and there doesn't seem to be links to it anywhere I can see, so it's perfectly understandable you didn't notice. She put it over here.

Eyes, the snow in Seattle does not get very deep at all. Occasionally maybe six inches or so but the people in Seattle don't react well to snow, almost never are chains actually used, in 15 years I've used chains twice.

Please remember that Seattle continually makes the top 10 for worst traffic conditions in North America.

Seattle is somewhat hilly, not San Francisco hilly, but hilly enough in the Downtown area. The area between I-5 and the water resemble the Bay Area in the Downtown area down to about 4th Street where it becomes level. Redmond in to the outskirts of Issaquah are foothills of the Cascades and tend to be lots of hills that flatten out. Tacoma, Federal Way, Fort Lewis area are not very hilly at all, large numbers of pine trees, lots of small streams and rivers. The areas north of Kirkland I'm not too familiar with, lots of trees and wooded foresty stuff.

The problem isn't with people gunning it, its the fact that Seattle large number of people pushing through poorly maintained roads which are too narrow for the amount of traffic. Even a minor fender bender in the Renton S-curves can back up traffic for miles and the floating bridge over Lake Washington on I-90 is stop and go for three or four hours surrounding rush hour. Hwy 520 over the Lake is faster but its on the north side of the Lake.